Invisible Connections
Brooke Flanagan
Major: Graphic Design
Genre/Medium: Digital design & embossed silver foil paper
About the work:
Invisible Connections is an art piece designed digitally on Procreate. It was then transferred into the physical world by being embossed on silver paper using a Cricut Machine. This work is inspired by the magnetic field of the Psyche spacecraft and how it may interact with the possible magnetic field of the Psyche asteroid. While humans cannot see magnetic waves or fields with just our eyes, the spacecraft is equipped with a magnetometer that can detect this invisible force. If the instrument detects a residual magnetic field at the asteroid, the asteroid is a remnant of a planetary core. If this asteroid truly is a core of a forming planet, this would allow scientists to better understand our core deep inside Earth, and how it formed. While we have to wait for the spacecraft to reach its destination before scientists can get answers to our many questions or speculations; that does not mean it isn’t evident that this asteroid holds connections to the creation of Earth and other planets in the solar system. These are connections we have yet to fully uncover, but it is through this mission we may finally make them visible. Just as the spacecraft has the magnetometer to make it possible for us to see and study the magnetic fields of the Psyche asteroid; one day this asteroid will allow us to gain a larger insight into how Earth was formed. What may be impossible to see still has an effect on the world and universe around us, and it is through having this drive to understand more that we make these connections visible.
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