" Darkest material on Earth will create a 'schism in space' for Winter Olympics. " -- CNN
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I just found about Vantablack last night in CNN channel though my Facebook page. The blackest black material that human even find is completely blow out my mind. How come, it looks so black I can't see the depth?
That because the color is not a color, the anti-color. This anti-color is a material developed by Surrey Nano Systems. Originally, on his website about vantablack, this man-made colorless anti-color material was developed for aerospace projects and space equipment. They put a coating inside of the space telescope to minimize the incident light comes into the view. The image we can get is more clearer from any stray light because it is like we dim down the flare. But then, the result of this material founded 3 years ago, was beyond its starting point, and many people began trying to find its widespread application in art, design, and engineering.
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The Vantablack material is originally made from a forest of carbon nano-tube, binds in chemical process so it is so dense with velvety look, yet so fragile to touch. The bounding between the nano-element is not strong as a diamond, the strongest carbon bounding in the earth. And because of it, when you touch the surface of Vantablack, it will dip the surface and damage the chemical bounding. So chill and keep your mind in your head, technically, nowdays version is not really that ready to be mass-used in every single product, just like what every artist or designer eager to do when this material was released. The price is really expensive, more expensive than gold and diamond, processes through a very complicated steps in its laboratory and plus, there is no a specific way on mass-producing Vantablack yet.
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How this Vantablack even works a blackest black, is so simple. While our eyes read a color by the light which is reflected by the material surface, the vantablack material just absorbs all of the light. About 99.96 % of light is absorbed by the forest of carbon nano-tube. The lack of reflected light to be said, that our eyes reads as a lack of color, black. It is completely different from how we get 'rich black' by combining red, green, and blue paint with the same ratio all together. [This is what I got from WikiHow, How to Make Black]. The light works in the opposite way. When all of the wavelength colors are mixed together, we get a white colors. Every materials has different ability to absorb color. And the reflected color our eyes see is how we name the material color. When all of the color is absorbed, no one is reflected, automatically, our eyes see the absence of color. I think, this is why, Vantablack material can create such as a deflected space, turning a 3D object into flat 2D object, visually. Because of this powerful visual illusion, my mind begin wondering about its possibility in the making of art and design.
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Eventually, artist Anish Kapoor, has a special privilege using this colorless anti-color material as his artwork material, and personally bands other artist to use it, creating a rage among his colleague in the art-scene. Another artist -sculpture and landscaper-, Lucien den Arend, also uses this non-pigmented pigment as part of his work, drenches landscape into Vantablack, creating a disturbing burning effect of the unseen black color object among trees and grasses. When it comes to creating art, Vantablack is supposed to elevate the meaning of blackness into whole different new level of its conceptual scenario and philosophy, then how about in the making architecture?
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I find this image on google when I search about Vantablack use in Architecture. And I began, absentmindedly, think this picture as a joke. The Bean - as the Cloud Gate called for its shape - was design by Anish Kapoor, yes, the same artist whose claims himself as the only artist who can use Vantablack, as it won the competition. The Bean material is made from mercury, creating an unique reflective surface and distorted image of the skyline. This object is really famous among tourist as a photo spot. And now, since, Anish Kapoor seems to nominee himself as a specialist Vantablack artist, I guess, this meme is viral in the internet. What a shame!
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Though in architecture itself, a British architect, Asif Khan, now is using this Vantablack material as a part of his project, 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. He is designing a curved-wall space layered in Vantablack to create it the same as a space -aerospace like-. A lot of tiny lights are installed to look like stars. Just so the people who walks pass trough this space, is like walking in the distorted space and time, experiencing the endless galaxy. Just because the CNN mention it, immediately I begin to recall a very memorable scene from La La Land, Sebastian and Mia, dance with the star in the observatory.
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And just like that, my mind begin to wonder, what else we can do with this Vantablack anti-color material's magic? Nor that I hope that this Vantablack will be available in the another shade of black fabric.
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