My book was inspired by the books we looked
at in the library's
collection of illuminated manuscripts. The beauty of detail and design
left me in awe, and I wanted to try it myself.I loved the idea of the
illuminated manuscript, but I didn't like it how all that beauty was
closed up in a book, so, I made my book a wall hanging, so it could be
displayed in the home all the time. I wanted my theme to be something
non-traditional, though. It attempts to talk about the role of
Mother Nature in our lives and the secrets she holds.
The materials I used include fabric, plywood, paper, colored
pencil, marker, and gold decorative pen.
Science fiction writer Arthur
Clarke once wrote that he
doesn't believe we will ever be able to travel to the farthest
reaches of the universe, light years away, because of our inability
to transcend time. But in reality, scientists have actually
manipulated time in the laboratory. In a recent experiment at the
European Centre for Nuclear Research, time was actually stretched or
"warped" by boosting particles called muons close to the speed of
light. The possibility that we can tinker with time stimulates the
imagination.
In space, the faster an object travels, the more time becomes
contorted. My book is a visual representation of a time warp. Each
pattern is a slight distortion of the previous page - until finally,
at the speed of light, time ceases to exist.
Time warp, however, is a psychological as well as a scientific
phenomenon. Have you ever become so engrossed in something that an
hour seemed like a minute? As Einstein discovered, time is purely
relative. And each of us has our own unique way of weaving its
threads.
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