The glass that offers Ukraine hope: Oksana Kondratyeva on the interface between art, science and architecture

Photo caption: Art of the matter An example of some of Ukrainian glass artist Oksana Kondratyeva’s work, which was created using a hydrofluoric-acid-etched flashed glass technique. Photo courtesy: Oksana Kondratyeva. Article by James Dacey. Physics World – June 23, 2022.

Just three days before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the power plant’s administrative building received a splash of colour. A nine-part stained-glass series was installed depicting the history of humankind’s relationship with energy, from Prometheus stealing fire from the gods, to scientists splitting the atom. When Chernobyl’s reactor building was destroyed by the nuclear inferno, this glass art survived; what is not yet clear is whether it has also survived Russia’s recent attack on the facility. […]

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