Push & Pull: The Origins of Aliveness
Part of the 'Creatives' Reaction 2024' exhibition at the University of Cambridge.
The research of Dr. Rimmer which centres around how non-life can become life is one of the central universal questions. To say that the thought of conveying this in one single picture was daunting is justified. It was, however, meeting him in person and discussing his research that a creative seed was found for this artwork. When he explained that one has to imagine that a planet’s surface and atmosphere are in a state of chemical push and pull, there then could potentially be a moment of balance wherein non-life becomes alive. This piece, with it swirls between the two curves, is that push and pull. There is a plot-line going through the piece which tracks non-life into life, a measurement of aliveness. The swirls at the point of aliveness, become a cascade that falls onto the planet’s surface: the planet now has life.
The research of Dr. Rimmer which centres around how non-life can become life is one of the central universal questions. To say that the thought of conveying this in one single picture was daunting is justified. It was, however, meeting him in person and discussing his research that a creative seed was found for this artwork. When he explained that one has to imagine that a planet’s surface and atmosphere are in a state of chemical push and pull, there then could potentially be a moment of balance wherein non-life becomes alive. This piece, with it swirls between the two curves, is that push and pull. There is a plot-line going through the piece which tracks non-life into life, a measurement of aliveness. The swirls at the point of aliveness, become a cascade that falls onto the planet’s surface: the planet now has life.