A Liquid Universe: Cymatics Photography Depicts the Essence of Gravitational Waves

A Liquid Universe: Cymatics Photography Depicts the Essence of Gravitational Waves

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view the complete Cymatic Water + Light series here.

Astronomers have used spinning stars called pulsars to create a galaxy-sized gravitational wave detector, revealing the presence of ripples in space-time across the entire universe. This project ‘Cymatic Water & Light’ creates experiments in the studio to emulate the process in the study of wave phenomena. These works are created using physics, photography, liquid and light alone, without the use of CGI, AI or any other form of digital production.

Gravitational waves were detected with solid data for the first time on earth by the LIGO (USA) & VIRGO (Italy) observatory scientists on June 28th 2023 a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein's 1916 theory of relativity.

Images used to explain gravitational waves from NASA & the science community in general have all been created with CGI or AI and are lacking the realism needed to visually convey this important discovery confirming Einstein’s work. I therefore decided to explore the physics behind gravitational waves in the studio by creating these waves in a more visible & easily understood way through cymatics using only physics and a camera to clearly demonstrate these waves.

The confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves is a very important discovery in the scientific community. Albert Einstein predicted them in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. 

A catalogue of selected artworks has been released by the artist as a collection of unique ‘one-off’ prints, and is available to view here in an illustrated pdf.

Read a conversation with the artist and writer, curator Paul Carey-Kent ‘From water to the universe’ for Seisma Magazine…

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Non-Edition commercial prints are available by special request in sizes up to 12 metres in length, under rights managed terms; under the condition that there is to be no commercial resale of the print(s) at any time. These prints are available to interior designers, property developers and architects for permanent site specific installations.

All still images and videos seen on this website are shot ‘in camera’. The stills are shot on analogue medium and large format cameras using 6x6 cms, 5x4 inch or 10x8 inch transparency film plates with the finest quality film scans all prepared and loaded onto our digital archive for immediate access.  The video files are shot as you see them with no post production, you will be licensing the raw file.

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