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Halloran: At one point, Kip was invited to write an article for Playboy, and he asked me to do the artwork. Lia’s creativity and skills as an artist, her enthusiasm and easy communication with me, and her familiarity with the essence of science make her a great collaborator. That’s why her sketches were so helpful to me in my planning discussions for Interstellar, first with Spielberg and later with Christopher Nolan and his brother, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. Kip Thorne: In her paintings and pencil sketches, Lia captures for me, as well as for nonscientists, the essence of objects and phenomena that are made from warped spacetime rather than from matter: the warped side of the universe. We not only became collaborators but also developed a wonderful love and respect for each other.
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He used those doodles as a way to explain how time and space could be visualized in the early, early conception of the movie Interstellar. So we started this wonderful dialogue where Kip would come to my studio and talk, and then, after about 45 minutes, my head would get hot from the mind-blowing things Kip was describing about the universe, and I’d try to put his ideas into an image or even some very simple doodles. He said there was “a young filmmaker” interested in making a film about his science and perhaps I could help him visualize it. I perked up and said, “Kip Thorne is here? I have to meet him.” I went up to him, and I was effusively and unapologetically sharing how much of an impact his writing had on my artwork. Then, in 2007, I was at a cocktail party in Pasadena and overheard someone say his name. So, I was collaborating with him before I even met him. Most of the paintings in my MFA thesis exhibit were based on reading what Kip wrote.
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There was something about the way Kip described this odd warping and bending of space that just made me feel transported. Lia Halloran: During my first year of graduate school at Yale I started reading Kip’s book Black Holes & Time Warps (W. For that exhibit, Halloran used painting and photographic techniques to create 110 prints inspired by the 18th-century French comet hunter Charles Messier.Ĭaltech magazine recently talked with Halloran and Thorne about their creative partnership. In 2016, her art installation Deep Sky Companion opened at Caltech’s Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Norton & Company in 2021 and features poetic verse by Thorne alongside paintings by Halloran.Īs an associate professor of art at Chapman University, Halloran has exhibited her work widely in the United States and Europe. The book, The Warped Side of Our Universe, is to be published by W. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, and one of the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. The past few months have been busy for Halloran, however, as she has put the finishing touches on a book project she has been working on for more than a decade with Kip Thorne (BS ’62), Caltech’s Richard P. COVID-19 upended those plans, and Halloran’s residency has been postponed until the spring of 2021. This spring, Los Angeles-based artist Lia Halloran was to have joined Caltech as artist-in-residence in the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences as part of the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture.