Open Studios Event at Reis, LIC

 

Open Studios Event at Reis, LIC featured an installation of the “R & D: Hypothesis Testing” series combined with the “Dust Plasmons in Space” series for the three-day event.

The R & D: Hypothesis Testing Series works were made with either 12 x 9″ Japan paper or white card stock with mixed media.  The Dust Plasmons in Space Series works were created with watercolor on paper in two sizes: 16 x 20″ and 22 x 30″.

LIGO celebrates the first anniversary in Sept. ’16 of its historic discovery one year ago.

This image shows a simulation (based on the actual parameters of the system LIGO detected) of what the two orbiting and then merging black holes detected by LIGO on September 14, 2015 might have looked like to a ‘nearby’ observer prior to their merger. Note the warping of space around the two objects, causing the light from more distant stars to appear distorted.

LIGO: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – Supported by the National Science Foundation. Operated by Caltech and MIT.

Inspiration for the Spontaneous Dynamism In SpaceTime Series

The Five-hundred-metre (world’s largest and most sensitive) Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, China.

Opened and operational on September 25, 2016.  It will be used for “observation of pulsars as well as exploration of interstellar molecules and interstellar communication signals (alien life).”

(Interstellar molecules are formed by chemical reactions within very sparse interstellar or circumstellar clouds of dust and gas. Usually this occurs when a molecule becomes ionized, often as the result of an interaction with a cosmic ray.

Inspiration for the GRB Hotspots, Space-Time Fuzziness, & Requisite Blurring Series

Otto Piene at work

Otto Piene (18 April 1928 – 17 July 2014) was a German artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts. Piene and Heinz Mack founded the group ZERO in 1957. This group consisted of artists who wanted to redefine art after World War II.
In the “fire paintings”, he lightly burned a layer of solvent on pigmented paper, developing organic forms from the remnant, or the soot. Throughout the remainder of his career he continued the practice of making “smoke pictures”.
Inspiration for The Hohlraum Pāhoehoe Series