Title: Special Relativity: Relativistic Doppler Effect. Two observers of a light-wave may experience events differently depending on their frame of reference.
Size: Pairs of either 51x61cm or 76x89cm
Naglaa Walker
On Physics is a series of photographic diptychs which juxtapose constructed blackboard images of chalked equations with carefully staged photographic images of people - for example, human emotional behavior such as kissing or arguing is paired with a graphic physical law. The viewer is invited to make connections between a physical law and an image, suggested by people enacting the roles of planets, electrons and other sub-atomic particles. These emotive diptychs raise questions about the relationship between scientific truths and the truth of human experience.
Artist Background
London-based artist Naglaa Walker originally trained as a physicist and worked as a Nuclear Particle Researcher. For six years following that, she was a Market Trader in the City of London before completing an MA in photography.
Walker draws on her physics background, using photography and video to enable the viewer to make connections between the abstraction of physical laws and the reality of experience.
- Other Works by this Artist
- Phase Transition: Clapeyron’s Equation
- Chaos
- Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
- Surface tension
- Attraction: Coulomb’s Law