2017
Graphite on paper
(45cm x 45cm)
“And the hair of his head is the number of the hidden worlds.” This excerpt from the Bruce Codex is the foundation of the work A.L.I.C.E., named after the detector installed on the ring of the Large Hadron Collider, the LHC. The drawing of the rhombicuboctahedron, first created by Leonardo da Vinci, recalls the shape of this detector. Every year, the LHC collides particles to recreate conditions (in a laboratory setting) similar to those that prevailed immediately after the Big Bang. The lines engraved on the graphite in the drawing refer to those formed by these collisions, like so many hairs that hide unsuspected worlds.