15Nov
William Kaufmann: diagram from The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity (1977). It was Steven Hawking and William Kaufmann who inspired me to produce a series of prints and drawings on The Event Horizon during the 1980s and 1990s:
(Typical spread from my sketchbooks - you explore in minuscule rough sketches ideas that you may later develop as full-scale prints or paintings, or storyboards or film-animations.)
"The event horizon of a black hole is the boundary around it from which nothing, not even light, can escape because the gravitational pull is so strong. It's often considered the black hole's "surface" and is the point of no return; once an object crosses it, it is pulled into the black hole's singularity. From the perspective of an outside observer, an object falling towards the event horizon would appear to slow down and freeze as it gets closer, eventually fading from view as its light gets redshifted and can no longer escape." (Google AI overview)
I became absolutely fascinated with the idea that all the objects falling into a Black Hole might become indelibly imprinted on the Event Horizon, and expanded this into silk-screen prints, drawings, sketches and storyboards..
You get the idea, you use sketches to explore ideas that you can't formulate any other way...You may even have to invent the means to express your visualisations - in this case, in the invention of my 'mathonaut' personifications - the 'people' that populate the artwork.
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