In Search of Meaning #5; In Search of Meaning #1
Acrylic
Lylie Fisher
Like art, particle physics deals with the invisible. One portrays emotional and spiritual experiences; the other studies unseen matter and energy. Science is the voice of the rational mind, and art is the reverberation of questioning.
-artist Lylie Fisher
These images are from “In Search of Meaning,” a series of eleven paintings based on the 1960’s bubble chamber particle physics experiments at Stanford University. Fisher selected original photographs from the experiments, and painted glistening jewel-toned colors in the negative spaces between the tracks left by charged particles.
I’m very fond of spirals and circles, and I really like this series. I also like this comment by Richard Lander, UC Davis physics professor: “the original photographs were always beautiful to the physicists. . . they’re beautiful in themselves.”
Fisher’s paintings are currently at Stanford’s SLAC (the show opened March 1; I’m not sure how long it will last).