Multiverse Mosaic unveiled

The mosaic - 'Sun Flare/Earth Shield – represents the 'dance of life and death' between solar flares and the protective electromagnetism of the Earth. It was revealed at the Crawick Multiverse artland near Sanquhar by Royal Society of Edinburgh president Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell with the Duke of Buccleuch and artist, designer and performer Alex Rigg of Moniaive. Crawick Multiverse was designed by Jencks and funded by the Duke of Buccleuch. It celebrated its first birthday at the weekend with a spectacular three day summer solstice festival mixing art, science and music.

Meanwhile, an exhibition has also opened exploring the fundamental nature of the cosmos. 'Landscape of Waves' is a collaboration between Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg the Scottish-based multi-disciplinary artist and designer. [caption id="attachment_13343" align="alignnone" width="680"]

Charles Jencks at the exhibition[/caption] The display at the Merz Gallery in Sanquhar is a chance to see paintings, sculptures, costumes and illustrations by the pair. The five themes of the exhibition will be The Crawick Multiverse; Two Galaxies and Two Black Holes; A Landscape of Waves; Solar Flare – Earth Shield; and Supercluster and Multiverse. Jencks said: "Underpinning the exhibition, and the Crawick Multiverse itself, is the scientific thinking that waveforms are integral to the cosmos at its deepest levels – even the human mind works using waves. "We can see this truth in all of nature and at all scales. "These kinds of ideas about science, art, nature and human culture and the persistence of life are ones that Alex and I approach in very different, but complementary ways."

Photos by Colin Hattersley.