![]() Art, she told them, isn’t a distraction from science-it enhances it. “But I still very much welcomed working with an artist.”īailey’s sales pitch to her fellow physicists was audacious. “I don’t consider myself an artistic person at all,” says Bailey. Together, Bailey and Purcell built mosaics on musical instruments to illustrate standing waves, the vibrational waveform often created in music. Her own pairing put her with mosaic artist Beth Purcell. Like Jane Austen’s Emma, Bailey played matchmaker, looking for complementary interests between artists and physicists. Bailey’s idea was to pair up a roster of Santa Cruz County artists with grad students and faculty in the physics department at UCSC. The show is the brainchild of UC Santa Cruz physicist Stephanie Bailey, who has attempted to blend lessons from the humanities into her teaching of physics. A couple of weeks after the show’s opening reception, both types of participants will share what they learned from each other in a panel discussion. Blitzer Gallery on March 1 and features the results of 17 collaborations between visual artists and physicists. But a new show in Santa Cruz called Fusion of Art and Physics aims to remind us that there are ways to build bridges between the two.įusion opens at the R. ![]() For those of us who are neither physicists nor artists, it’s easy to think that there is simply no Venn-diagram overlap between physics and art. ![]()
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