Sundari Carmody is explaining dark matter to me, from her home studio in Adelaide. She’s not a trained scientist—neither am I—but she speaks about the hypothesised unseen matter that holds the universe together, that if it weren’t there, would lead to stars at the edge of space flinging off into nothingness, untethered. The unseen parts of human existence underpin the work of the artist.
Carmody started looking into dark matter after seeing a 1970s photograph of female astronomer Vera Rubin looking through
