A Distant View I
London, 2015
Steel, Plywood, Indian Ink, White LED
A Distant View is a series of reliefs inspired by the images of the Moon’s surface provided by the Lunar Orbiter missions of 1966-67. These photographs were transmitted to Earth as processed data after onboard scanning of the original films, then reconstructed at NASA to create detailed images of the Moon’s topology.
A Distant View reimagines this process of capturing and reconstructing reality by taking some of these images back to their three-dimensional origin to create a new interpretation of the moon’s surface. However the reliefs also expose what is lost, through the gaps that populate the composition, where the data is incomplete. Illuminated from the upper ridge, shadows appear to articulate these spaces, morphing and altering depending on the viewer’s standpoint. It is through this experience of the work, as both a physical object and a recollection of memory, that the pieces resonate and call into question our own ability to reason and comprehend.
