Wormhole Animism
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor
Steve Gilbert Studio
November 14 -December 7, 2024, by appointment (schedule here)
Closing Reception & Artist Talk
Saturday, December 7th from 4-8pm.
Talk at 4:30pm.
Meghan Trainor’s Wormhole Animism can be enjoyed through a purely aesthetic lens. But the artist’s passion for the wonders of the universe shines through in her creations and encourages the audience to take a closer look—to ponder the secrets of the universe at large, and on a microcosmic level through our relationships to ourselves, the Earth, and each other.
Seattle’s Meghan Trainor Puts the “A” in STEAM with STEM-Infused Art
-Nicole Bearden, Evergreen Echo
Abismo Chrysalis
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Copper, wax, reed, seaweed, and mechanical elements
Abismo Chrysalis (Mask for accessing the void, after Lygia Clark), is used for charting a path through space-time. Seaweed is used as it is biocompatible with exotic matter (aka negative energy) and created in fields of negative ions, produced when water collides with itself just above the kelp forests.
$1,150
Alignment
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Seaweed, reed, red thread, painted birch panels, cloth-covered wire, custom electronics
A ritual device that has for centuries allowed witches to be able to engage with wormholes in deep space to as portals for travel, allowing them to move through spacetime. It allows them to create an alignment between black and white holes in their field of vision that is echoed in space.
$9,400
Black Hole / White Hole
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Paper, seaweed, copper, LEDs
Black Hole / White Hole represents an Einstein-Rosen bridge, where a black hole, which absorbs matter, is directly connected through a wormhole to a white hole, which expels matter. This bridge forms a passage through spacetime, revealing a hidden pathway that links distant parts of the universe and embodies the powerful, cyclical forces of cosmic creation and destruction.
$825
Bog Memory/Computer Memory
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Bog-dyed wool, copper wire, rings, obsidian, grommets
Bog Memory/Computer Memory, or “Mosehukommelse/Computerhukommelse” in Danish, was created in Denmark during a residency at Captive Portals gallery in Copenhagen. This piece connects two systems of memory: the ancient preservative properties of bogs and the physical structure of early computer memory. The 16 sheets of wool felt are interwoven with copper and obsidian beads, resembling the core memory objects used in the Apollo mission to the moon. Bogs, the anaerobic wetlands common in both Ireland and Denmark, preserve objects for millennia, even while dissolving bones and darkening organic material. In the Irish and Irish-American imagination, the bog, like wool and knitting, is an icon of cultural heritage. The bog acts as an archive, much like digital memory stores information, keeping objects intact for centuries. In this work, the 16 sheets of felt have been soaked in plexiglass cube “bog batteries,” used to generate low-voltage electricity in other works like “Spacetime Machine with Bog Batteries [Negative Energy is Anti-Gravity],” 2023, and “Bog Battery Spell,” 2022. Core memory, like its cousin core rope memory, is a relic of mid-century computing, popular before the expansion of magnetic and semiconductor memory. It stored data on a core plane of insulative material, the center woven with copper wire and ferrite cores—in essence, tiny magnetic rings—where the magnetic orientation indicated either a one or a zero, with specific wires used to write and others to read the electrical signals.
$4,600
Cosmologicos
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Gouache on found copper objects
Milagros for when Astronomers were Astrologers.
$225 each
Blackhole Ergosphere
Magnetic Fields
Dandelion Supernova
Wormhole
The Crab of the Southern Sky
Magnestar
Einstein Ring
Helix Nebula
Oort Cloud
Hourglass Nebula
Electron Degenerate Star
The Inky Abyss
Elektron Oracle
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2020–2024
Variable Installation
Witch technology got us to the moon?
A circuit is a sigil is a circle is a spell.
A divination is an algorhythm.
Elektron is Greek for amber, noted for its minor electrical properties. How might a witch or oracle get their mind to the lunar surface, how might they use, or at least involve, an ancient concept of electricity to accomplish that and execute their divination ritual? Elektron Oracle places us during the historical phase in which travel to the moon became more difficult, precisely because witches were beginning to work with electricity, turning towards logic and away from magic and intuition.
$16,000
Feeding the Void (Accretion Disc)
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Graphite, encaustic on panel
An accretion disc is a rotating ring of gas, dust, and other material that spirals around a black hole. As matter falls inward, it heats up and emits light, creating a bright disc that can be visible across vast distances in space. This disc represents the process by which black holes "feed" on surrounding matter.
$300
Fort Worden Portals at Battery Ash
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Photograph on aluminum
This photographic series was captured Fort Worden’s Battery Ash, during an Arts Worker Residency at Centrum in Port Townsend.
Abismo Chrysalis (Mask for accessing the void, after Lygia Clark), used for charting a path through space-time. Seaweed is used as it is biocompatible with exotic matter (aka negative energy) and created in fields of negative ions, produced when water collides with itself just above the kelp forests.
Wu Detector, used to detect and stabilize precise electrical fields used to access wormhole pathways. Pairs with a Wu Torq. Chien-Shiung Wu was the first to use allopathic means to establish the phenomenon and validity of entanglement using photons through observing angular correlation. Her pioneering experiments in beta decay also played a crucial role in the discovery of parity violation, fundamentally altering the understanding of symmetry in physics. An Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Portal uses non-local entanglement to access and traverse shortcuts through spacetime geometry. It consists of a constructed Einstein-Rosen Bridge (or wormhole) in conjunction with a quantum connection through spacetime.
$128 each
Opening a Portal
Abismo Chrysalis and Wu Detector
Wu Torq
Waiting for a Signal
Logic Gates
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2021
Graphite, encaustic on panel
Exploring fundamental components of computational theory, Logic Gates interprets essential logical operations, each depicted through abstract forms that hint at their role in the architecture of digital logic.
$10,000
Logical Connectives
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2023
Ink on paper
This series explores fundamental logical gates and connectives that form the basis of computational processes. Each drawing captures a unique connective, interpreted through abstract symbols.
$256 each
TRUE
Joint Denial (NAND gate)
Converse Implication
Material Implication
Disjunction (OR gate)
B (the other negation)
Negation (NOT gate)
Exclusive Disjunction (XOR gate)
Material Equivalence (XNOR gate)
Amplifier (BUFFER gate)
B
Joint Affirmation (NOR gate)
Converse Non-Implication
Material Non-Implication
Conjunction (AND gate)
FALSE
Piercing the Void (Relativistic Jet)
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Graphite, encaustic on panel
Relativistic jets are powerful streams of particles that are ejected at nearly the speed of light from the area surrounding some black holes. These jets are propelled along the black hole’s rotational axis, often extending far into space and emitting high-energy radiation, representing the forceful boundary between annihilation and creation.
$300
Quantum Foam No. 1
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Ink on paper
Explores quantum fluctuations that underlie the fabric of the universe, represented through abstract visual language.
$375
Quantum Foam No. 2
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Ink on paper
A comic-style exploration of black holes and quantum foam, narrated through Kepler’s cosmic journey with his witch mother, bridging physics and folklore.
$375
Shadow Portal: Holographic Study
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Reed, wax, resin, graphite, copper paper
This study explores the holographic principle by projecting a 3D wormhole onto a 2D surface, much like how a black hole’s event horizon encodes all the information inside it. The 2D shadow represents the wormhole’s full structure, revealing how higher-dimensional systems can be captured in lower dimensions. The copper circles, representing quantum particles on the event horizon, connect to the concept of Hawking radiation, where particles escape the boundary. This boundary mirrors the veil or hedge, acting as a portal between realms, where information and energy pass between dimensions. In dialogue with The Unfinished Aleph, this piece further explores holographic theory’s suggestion that all information within a black hole, or even the universe itself, is stored on its boundary. Both works engage the idea that the universe’s edge—whether a black hole’s event horizon or the limits of reality—holds the keys to understanding existence beyond the veil.
$950
Spacetime Machine with Bog Batteries [Negative Energy is Anti-Gravity]
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2023
Seaweed, reed, copper wire, handmade copper & zinc electrodes, custom electronics, wax, resin, plexiglass boxes, moss, bog
This Seaweed Einstein-Rosen Bridge (wormhole) is a ritual device powered by the negative energy of bog batteries. Wormholes are normally impassable due to the intense gravitational pressure at their centers, but anti-gravity, also known as negative energy, is capable of resisting gravity to allow for passage through the wormhole. Bogs, fields drenched in the blood of centuries of Druidic ritual sacrifice, are capable of generating intense negative energy.
$11,000
The Unfinished Aleph
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Paper, wax, resin, ink, velvet, reed, clips, wood
The Unfinished Aleph consists of an unfinished transcription of the short story The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, a narrative in which the protagonist discovers a mystical point in space that contains all other points, allowing him to perceive everything in the universe simultaneously. The form represents the mouth of a black hole, where the information of every absorbed object is theorized to be stored holographically as 2D data on the event horizon.
$1,300
Void Boundary (Event Horizon)
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Graphite, encaustic on panel
The event horizon is the boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which nothing—not even light—can escape. It represents the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so strong that all paths lead inward, marking the edge of the black hole’s influence on the surrounding space.
$300
Void Core (Singularity)
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor, 2024
Graphite, encaustic on panel
The singularity is the core of a black hole where matter is compressed to an infinitely small point. At this point, gravity is so intense that the laws of physics as we know them break down, making it a region of infinite density and zero volume.
$300