A World Between Worlds

Illustration

Apr. 16, 2024

What Would Happen If The Solar System Collapsed Into Two Dimensions

In The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, one of the most imaginative and haunting ideas is the dual-vector foil, a hypothetical weapon that collapses three-dimensional space into two dimensions. When activated in the solar system, the author describes the resulting 2D space as resembling The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh—beautiful, surreal, and terrifying.

This concept invites serious thought …

Nov. 2, 2021

Maybe It's Time to Paint Again

I’ve been reading a book called What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye, and one particular fact from the book struck me: academism places a strong emphasis on the technical skills, but modernism shifts the focus to ideas and concepts. This really got me thinking.

As a child, I loved painting. I would spend hours immersed in my own little world, completely …