watercolor, color pencil, ink; 16×20″
“The big bang is the running theory in the scientific community on how the universe was created but before it was so accepted there has been much debate over this topic with some viewing it to be false. My piece is a depiction of the big bang with multiple rings around it representing how long it has been since the big bang. The first circle represents three seconds since the big bang; it is represented by nuclei; then after ten seconds, neutrons and quarks’ and at three minutes, helium and hydrogen atoms and then jumping all the way to a billion years, proto galaxies, then again to fifteen billion years, where planets began to form. The big bang impacted society by expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge and giving a base for scientists to learn how the world was formed. This knowledge also gave insight on other aspects of the universe which lead to many more discoveries, and likely to more in the future.”
ARTIST BIO: Drake BASTIN is a grade 11 student at Butler Tech School of Art studying art under art teacher Mary Catherine Ruby.