A series of artworks created as key visuals for the exhibition Dark Matters at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.

Inspired by the title of the show, FIELD conceived a series of digital gemstones, with letterforms shining through with an obscure translucency.

The gemstones are generated using a physical simulation of molten rock that collides with an exterior, typographic shell. The expansion and compression of the “dark matter” within its shell creates abstract and suggestive structures of an intricate detail.

Subtitled “Shadow_Technology_Art”, Dark Matters is an exhibition populated by half-seen spectres, visual riddles and distorted reflections.

The show brings together the work of ten internationally acclaimed contemporary artists who employ a range of technologies, media and machinery:

Brass Art, Pavel Buchler, R. Luke DuBois, Pascal Grandmaison, Barnaby Hosking, Idris Khan, Ja-Young Ku, Elin O’Hara Slavick, Daniel Rozin, Hiraki Sawa.