Artwork description:

Limited edition artwork on museum-quality Hahnemühle FineArt Paper, 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 Hawkings thesis about gravity:

"Rather than space extending itself, it is the distance
between any two points within the universe
that is growing. That idea emerged in the 1930s
amid much controversy, but one of the best ways
to visualize it is still a metaphor enunciated in
1931 by Cambridge University astronomer Arthur
Eddington. Eddington visualized the universe as
the surface of an expanding balloon, and all the
galaxies as points on that surface."

Stephen Hawking, „The grand design“, 2010, p. 101

Materials used:

Hahnemühle FineArt Paper