Crafts: Large Hadron Collider Quilts

Large Hadron Collider Quilts by Kate Findlay

Source: Symmetry Magazine

Breakthrough

  Materials: silks, synthetics and cottons, a metal ring wrapped in gold cord, metallic mesh.

The Alice Adventure
Materials: Cottons, sheers and synthetics.

Inner Eye
Materials: Silk, synthetic fabric, pvc fabric and sequins.

This piece is about scale–the vast Hadron Collider looking for infinitesimal particles. The eye was inspired by the shape of the framework holding up one part of the detector. The detector itself became the iris of the eye. I wanted a mini eye in the middle to suggest the scientists’ inward search for answers to the existence of our huge universe. 

Does the Dark Matter?

Materials: cotton, synthetics and silks.