Jiggling Atoms
 

Particle physics is about taking things apart to see how they work; taking Nature itself apart piece by piece until it can be disassembled no longer. Then, with the few unique building blocks at your disposal, you can smash them together in weird and wonderful ways to see exactly what makes them tick. Understanding the very fundamental bits of Nature like this allows us to explain the history of our Universe from the very first billionths of a second. Particle physics is interpretation and understanding of the creation story of the Universe as told by the smallest things in it.

www.jigglingatoms.org

David Gentleman

 

Ivories showing celebration of the mass.

MS, NW


I was asked by Grace to donate something to the Art Against Knives raffle at their external show, Mixed Special. They are such a lovely bunch that I wanted to make something new for them, and also have a chance to revisit the loom while working on other things has taken over somewhat.
 

(42 x 28 cm)

I posted a while back about a new thought in designing for weave, and this follows that thought: attempting to design for the loom, instead of bending drawings round to fit into its limitations. It also became a sort of re-inagural exercise in trying to build up a skill-set, re-learn and think in terms of warp and weft again. How to make the yarn move the way you imagine it. The move now I think is to look to finer, more subtle yarn, to give a different quality, and with a view to embroidery and/or application.



This is borne somewhat from the recent Bauhaus: Art as Life exhibition show at the Barbican - so much more giving than the Berlin archive in weave terms, it was wonderful to see such seminal works up close, figure out how they might have been done. My favourite piece, a Stölzl, below. Attended too a wonderful talk by her daughter Monika Stadler, and was reminded of what an incredible woman she was. Weaves are a fragile things, and sometimes it feels like a fragmented history - the piece below I think Monika said was lost on a ship that sunk - but the few interested people here and there make weaving still very exciting for me.

Gunta Stölzl (1923)
Warp: mercerized cotton. Weft: wool, rayon and metal thread
183x112 cm

The illustration shows the mirror woven replica carried out by Helene Börner in 1925.

 

1: Lucie Rie via
2: ? via
3: HCW - the street

Jiggling Atoms

Lecture 1 of 5. What do physicists do all day, anyway? Written and delivered by Jennifer Crouch and Malte Oppermann as part of a project organised by Jen, Malte, Natalie Kay-Thatcher, Ben Still and I called Jiggling Atoms, after Richard Feynman, about illustrating particle physics. Can it be done? There's a lot more to say, but not today.

Grixel, Graxel

Get some wind for the sailboat

I said Chris who is Einstein? I don't know. I said Chris who is Einstein? I don't know. I said Chris who is Einstein? I don't know. I said Chris who is Einstein? I don't know. I said Chris who is Einstein?I said Chris who is Einstein? I don't know. I said Chris who is Einstein? Lemmie think.



Tonight at the Barbican.

Quantum Foam

Herbert Bayer via Design History

Quantum Foam via Universe Review

Serenade (1973), by Hockney