MORE than 16,000 gemstones hang in suspension as part of a new artwork by the Edinburgh-based artist Maja Quille.
Ms Quille is the co-creator, with Sarah Dale, of this installation for the new Higgs Centre for Innovation at Edinburgh University’s Royal Observatory. Opening later this year, the work is a three-dimensional hanging depicting the front door of the scientist Professor Peter Higgs, who discovered the Higgs Boson.
The beads, which make up the image of a door, come into alignment as the viewer walks around it.
At all other angles it will appear as a cloud.
As part of the project, the artists visited CERN in Geneva, where they spoke to physicists who worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at the ATLAS experiment, within the Large Hadron Collider.
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