Label
The Stillness of Motion
Artist
Lara Haroun
Description
Nanopipettes, quartz capillaries laser-pulled into conical-shaped geometries, taper into a nanometer-sized pore where the smallest disturbance can halt the world within. Gold nanoparticles drift like silent constellations, filament ghosts cling to the glass, and stray debris gathers at the threshold, conspiring toward stillness. Here, at the brink of motion, flow falters. In this first attempt to fill the nanoscale tip, an air bubble lingers, suspended, breath held, unable to flee. Around it, every obstruction aligns, and what was meant to be a living current yields instead to quiet arrest, a fragile system stilled at the edge of movement.
Type
Zeiss Axioscope/Axiocam optical microscope
Artist Affiliation
Graduate student
Department
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area of Research
Electrochemistry, nanoscience
Research Group
Date
2026