Concepts for my work often coincide with breakthroughs in science that I find compelling and awe-inspiring . Sometimes , mid-way through creating a body of work , a discovery is revealed , like the God Particle , The Pluto Fly-by , solar flares and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN . And recently it happened again while working towards Genesis ; the enormously significant discoveries about gravitational waves were uncovered . The image is rarely interpreted in a literal sense , rather , a starting point for color and inspiration for the creation of movement and atmosphere , such as in Wave Horizon . Another example is the image on the following page , which inspired Pluto Atlas 1 , one of the first images revealed from the recent New Horizons Pluto Fly-by .