Pattern Seeker III - Compact Muon Solenoid

In this artwork I have used the images of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one of the two main particle detectors at Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It investigates a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. CMS is 21.6 metres long, 15 m in diameter, and weighs about 14,000 tonnes. Approximately 3,800 people, representing 199 scientific institutes and 43 countries, form the CMS collaboration who built and now operate the detector.
I have reduced the various forms to simple geometric shapes on a large canvase to create patterns and shapes that are reminiscent of the soaring cathedrals of the past as the sense of awe and wonder is no longer evoked by our layering of a religious mythological narrative over the world but by what we are now discovering about the very nature of our reality – a reality which is more beautiful and magical than the products of our wildest imagination. An imagination which is stretched to the utmost not to imagine things that are not there but just to comprehend those things which are there.