In the process of learning more about the Webb telescope and its capabilities, I came across a 3D model created by the European Space Agency, inventors of the Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the JWST. The model shows collected light traveling a path through the imager’s beam splitters and filters, reflecting across many different mirrors in a complicated pattern, which I saw as an ethereal sculpture made out of photons: the finite describing the infinite. 

I also made derivative works from the MIRI drawing where I used a computer-generated image effect that smeared and stretched the image, creating beams of light from beams of light, further abstracting an abstract machine.