La Lune 15.October - 11.December 2005

We live in amazing times. Science and progress have opened up new ways of viewing the space in which we inhabit. These two photographs sourced from the Internet and recorded on what must be the world’s most expensive cameras, attempt to suggest a connection between our own planet and its relationship to outer worlds - that we share common energy forces - demonstrated by the similar spiraling form seen in both images.

What other meanings can we consider as we gaze at these amazing photographic achievements, and what possible secrets of the universe will be uncovered during our 21st century as mankind moves into the future?

The work also aims to operate as homage as we celebrate the 100th year anniversary of Albert Einstein’s series of scientific papers that revolutionized our view of space, time and the atom. These were simply astounding scientific theories that changed the world forever and positioned Einstein as one of the greatest geniuses of the last century.

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The new NASA Administrator Mike Griffin, on appointment, April 13, 2005 stated:
“The Hubble, almost by itself, is this instrument which allowed us, as a race of people, but our scientists in particular to understand that it is quite literally true that we know nothing about 95 percent of the known universe”…”Seventy-five percent of it is dark energy, 20 percent of it is so-called dark matter, and the remaining 5 percent is what we can see. That is an understanding so profound as to rival with Einstein’s development of theories of relativity and so forth. So it has been an extraordinarily valuable instrument.”

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One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to the genius at the center of 20th-century physics.

Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis -- his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc².
The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just as popular legend has it, Einstein really was a patent office clerk when he conceived his radical theories.

Wayne Wilson-Wong

30. Force of Nature Study #2, 2005

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(Credit: The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and Companion Galaxy, January 2005. NASA, ESA, S.Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Image type: Astronomical STScI-PRC2005 – 12a)

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Media: C-type print under Di-Bond Laminate
Edition: 1/6
Dimension: 2000 x 1250 mm

Wayne Wilson-Wong

31. Force of Nature Study #1, 2005

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(Credit: Hurricane Rita, September 23, 2005. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC)

Price: Negotiable
Media: C-type print under Di-Bond Laminate
Edition: 1/6
Dimension: 1250 x 1050 mm