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GOOD Design Daily: Portrait of a Particle Accelerator
Artist Josef Kristofoletti painted a life-sized mural of the seven-ton particle accelerator at the Large Hadron Collider.
01.15.11
Kristofoletti has created plenty of murals, notably, with the group Transit Antenna, a collective that travels throughout the United States painting public art. But this project was both the biggest and most complicated undertaking Kristofoletti had embarked upon. After meeting with physicists at the facility on the Switzerland-France border, Kristofoletti was taken to see the collider, located in what's maybe one of the most secure rooms on the planet:
I started going through the most high secure checkpoint I have ever seen. The workers go through a complex biometric security system that includes a retinal scan. They all wear a dosimeter that measures radiation levels and there are plenty of safety warning labels on everything. We took the elevator down, then stepped out to look at the beast. There were a few men inside the detector doing some last minute work, but they were reduced to ants by huge size of its metal parts. It was sublime.
via HuffPo Arts