New artwork „oscillating universe“
The new work visualizes the "Big Bounce" theory which offers a hypothetical model of the birth of our universe.
It is implied by the cyclic model or oscillatory universe interpretation of the Big Bang where the first cosmological event was the result of the collapse of a previous universe. According to the oscillatory universe theory, the Big Bang was simply the beginning of a period of expansion that followed a period of contraction. This suggests that we could be living at any point in an infinite sequence of universes, or conversely the current universe could be the very first iteration. The work depicts the Universe existing before our known Universe; it offers a glimpse of time before the Big Bang. The composition is based on super high res data visualization taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Several parts of our Universe have been stitched together to form a new fictive Universe. The fact that this Universe is visually inverted (white space, black stars) draws on the idea that the previous Universe underwent a process of contraction before entering a black hole, turning inside out and creating the Universe we know.
A new production technique has been developed togehter with Berlin based laboratory „das foto image factory“, the artwork includes hundreds of small metal particles which are reflecting like stars in the picture.
Michael himself distributes by hand the stars in the Universe.