This screen print was created during Lisa’s year-long residency at Mullard Space Science Lab where she followed the Euclid Mission (see Projects Page).

Artist statement: The conundrum of dark matter leaves us in staring at a tantalising blind spot. How can an invisible thing with the inexorable pull of matter evade our eyes? We rely on science to poke at fundamental concepts that move outside our sphere of comprehension. The pattern of our universe is so tied to this, perhaps impossible, question that we must find new ways to measure the cosmos in hopes of detecting why so much of the world has avoided our gaze and is slipping into infinity.

This work uses the European Space Agency’s commissioned Flagship Mock Galaxy Catalogue data. Using a tiny portion of the Swiss supercomputer generated pattern, it shows the evolution of a synthetic universe depicting the clumping of matter (visible and invisible) leading to the formation of galaxies like our Milky Way.

The central shape in the print was traced from a meteorite found in Sweden in 1906 thought to be billions of years old.