Brutal
Brutalist architecture inspired by science.
Science has always been a large interest for me; From my childhood to my engineering studies.
Physics, space, and engineering keep inspiring me to this day. That’s why I decided to dedicate a small collection of artworks to this topic.
My usual style often involves colorful architecture, but in this series, I explore the brutalist style in black and white.
This collection shows brutalist buildings shaped into abstract forms that connect back to maths, physics, and space.
Stellarator
Nuclear fission has influenced the world immensely over the past century and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Since nuclear fission has negative side effects, scientists continue to look for new methods to generate energy in a cleaner way. The process that fuses atomic nuclei inside stars like our sun is called nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is a popular candidate and has been theorized since the early 1900s. To this day, the world continues to make advancements to make this technology feasible.
The Stellarator is a type of nuclear fusion reactor that resembles a twisted version of the torus-shaped Tokamak design we often see in nuclear fusion reactors.
Lissajous
Lissajous are mathematical equations shaped by oscillating functions that create complex harmonic motion. When oscillating functions (for example sines or cosines) are plotted on both the x and y axis, some interesting figures arise at certain frequencies. If the ratio of frequencies is just right, a Lissajous curve is created. Perpetual curves that resemble a circle, an infinity symbol, or something more complex. I wondered what these figures would look like in three dimensions instead of two, so I decided to create an artwork around this phenomenon. With the right parameters, these mathematical functions create beautiful infinite three-dimensional curves.
Wormhole
Einstein-Rosen bridges or wormholes probably don’t need an introduction because of their numerous appearances in science fiction stories. Wormholes have been theoretically proven thanks to the famous general theory of relativity by Einstein, but whether they actually exist in our universe remains a great mystery that scientists are attempting to solve. A simple way to illustrate a wormhole would be to bend a sheet of paper and poke a hole through both sides with a pencil. This is the way I decided to showcase multiple wormholes in my artwork. These wormholes would create a shortcut from one area of spacetime to another, thus allowing us to travel a longer distance in a shorter time span than we could if we were limited by the speed of light. Since space in our universe appears to be three-dimensional and not flat like a sheet of paper, the “bridge” of the wormhole would actually be four-dimensional.
