The world we live in is increasingly a world of tensions and fractures. Familiar and established orders that give us a certain degree of security and predictability are vanishing, while new patterns, connections and dependencies are emerging. We are living in a world that is simultaneously dissolving and evolving.
The photo series follows the lyrical narrative form of paired verses and explores the tension that arises from the pairing of contrasting images. The series contrasts detailed perspectives of the disappearing world with inhospitable, sometimes surreal surface details of other planets in our solar system from the NASA archives.
Through their symbolism, the selected image excerpts convey varying degrees of emotional and cultural charge, inspiring associations and stories. The deliberately composed image pairs create an elegiac mood that makes the threat of dissolution and the unpredictability of the new tangible.
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Ida and Gaspra.
This picture shows the asteroids Ida (left) and Gaspra (right) to the same scale. These images were taken by the Galileo spacecraft while enroute to Jupiter. Gaspra was imaged on October 29, 1991 at a range of 3,300 miles (5,300 km). Ida was imaged on August 28, 1993 from a range of 1,900 to 2,400 miles (3,000 to 3,800 km). Both objects are irregular in shape. Gaspra is about 10.5 miles long (17 km), and Ida is 18.6 miles long and 6 to 8 miles wide (9.3 x 12.7 x 29.9 km). These asteroids are just two of the billions of such rocky and metallic objects that orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter.
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00332
