Expansion Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Limited edition artwork on museum-quality Hahnemühle FineArt Pape, signed and numbered. Comes with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. 60cm x 80cm with 5cm Passepartout - Limited edition of 5 90cm x 120cm with 10cm Passepartout - Limited edition of 5 "What is reality?" is a series created in March - June 2018. After reading the two books "A brief history of time" and "The grand design" by Stephen Hawking I was inspired by the physical insights and the way he explains them. I created a surrealistic series of images, where every image belongs to another theses of one of Hawking's books. The results were 15 surreal photographs, where every single one stands as an artwork on its own but still refer to a physical aspect. This image was inspired by Stephen Hawking's thesis about Expansion: "For example, if we circled a cluster of galaxies on the balloon, that circle would not expand as the balloon expanded. Rather, because the galaxies are bound by gravitational forces, the circle and the galaxies within it would keep their size and configuration as the balloon enlarged. This is important because we can detect expansion only if our measuring instruments have fixed sizes. If everything were free to expand, then we, our yardsticks, our laboratories, and so on would all expand proportionately and we would not notice any difference." Stephen Hawking, „The grand design“, 2010, p. 101, 102