Atomic art: Artist explores the intangible

Johnson uses the patterns of sub-atomic decay – when a particle decays on a particular path – to create outlines of houses and trees. She makes the invisible physics that occur around us into translatable, understandable scenes of everyday living.

‘My work explores patterns in nature that exist at the extremes of scale… in short, microscopic or macroscopic landscapes [that depict] a physical reality that is invisible to the naked eye,’ says the artist in her biography.

In our Re-enlightenment Rising macrotrend, we identified the growing cultural obsession with science as a means of knowing and understanding our world. Johnson’s work is a reflection of this zeitgeist, through an artist’s lens.