Helpt Elkander - Wormhole

How do you imagine something that was never recorded earlier?

Already in 2020 Joeri made the first sketchesfort he concept of ormhole. After many hours of planing the point is reachd in 2026: Wormhole is going to be built under the guidance of a new Sannen-Meeuwisen design combination – the previous combination was with Femke Sannen, a niece of Joeri’s.

A wormhole is a tunnel in space that was never observed yet that would make it possible to travel to another galaxy in a short time. Although famous scientists like Einstein and Rosen described the theory of a wormhole extensively, it remains questionable if a wormhole is merely a theory or it actually exists somewhere in the universe, since a wormhole was never ‘observed’ so far.

Helpt Elkander is about to have a go to make an image of uch a wormhole. For this image Joeri and Peter were inspired by the film ‘Interstellar’, in which a group of astronauts is searching for new inhabitable planets. By travelling through a wormhole it would be possible to reach new galaxies in a short time, something that would be impossible in one human lifetime without a wormhole.

On the float ‘Wormhole’ travelling through a tunnel in the midst of innumerable planets and stars will be depicted. By means of movement and other effects in and on the tunnel (including the spaceship inspired by Interstellar) towards th surrounding planets, it is a try to change the perspective of the front view towards the side view of the wormhole continuously as the float is passing.

In short, Helpt Elkander’s float treats the onlooker in September to an imaginative look at travelling through time and space.

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Joeri Sannen I26) is an urban planner; it is his second design. Pieter Meeuwissen (69) is a retired biologist; it is his 32nd design in Corso Zundert. Besides he is also a designer for corso group Culemborg at the Fruit Corso of Tiel.

Original Dutch Text: Stijn van Helmondt
Translation: Emile Wassenaar
Photo: Jeanne van Oosterhout

Hamlet Helpt-Elkander
www.helptelkander.nl

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