Artist Josiah McElheny's Vision of the Big Bang

I just love it when art and science converge, as with artist Josiah McElheny's sculptures. He's now working on a piece titled "The End of the Dark Ages," a scientifically accurate model representing the origins of our universe, according the The New York Times Magazine.

According to art21 blog:

"Since 2004, McElheny has collaborated with The Ohio State University cosmology professor David Weinberg on the conceptual realization of a series of sculptures that depict the theory of the Big Bang with the language of mid-1960s industrial design. This unexpected pairing of high modernist thought finds its origins in 1965, the year the Big Bang was first confirmed by physical evidence and when the Viennese firm Lobmeyr and Co. was commissioned to design a chandelier with a “galactic appearance” for New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The serendipity of these two events inspired McElheny to create his series of scientifically accurate, precisely manufactured sculptures."

So all these appendages, as shown in a similar work here, represent various epochs, one rod for 100 million years, a longer one for 1.3 billion years. Clusters of glass will represent galaxy formations.

Way cool and inspirational--and beautiful!