Due to the fact I have never read 'A Brief History of Time' I need to try and broaden my understanding of the book contextually before I can even begin to create ideas. I have ordered the book itself in one of its earlier editions to help gather potential exerts or illustrations if it has any, however I know I would never be able to read it in time. For this reason I have been searching for other sources of context that will help me get a basic grasp for the books content. One such source I came across was a documentary of the same title made in the late 90s. The documentary does cover the books theories in detail but more so is a story of Stephen Hawking's life and a discussion of certain key elements within the book. I find it essential to build up a good understanding of not only an artist/author/physicists work but also them as a person and their inspiration, helping me develop a deeper contextual meaning. In Stephens case one of the driving factors behind his success in cosmology is his disability, Motor Neurone Disease which rendered him nearly entirely paralysed from his early 30s onwards. This juxtaposition between disability and ability is something I could play on with my designs. However I think it is key to keep fairly rigidly to the content of the book in which none of his personal life is featured.
There was an abundance of interesting imagery used within the documentary to help illustrate certain principles. I feel interpretations of this imagery may well be the backbone for my designs as the use of visual metaphors can be very effective. An example of this is dice or a roulette wheel symbolising the concept of the universe being entropic. Another very literal one is a watch filmed slowly rotating into a black whole using wonderfully outdated 1990s filming techniques. This was to portray what would happen to an astronaut if they jumped into a black hole and how their and anyone watchings concept of time and space would be distorted. Images from documentary:
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