The Earth
Beneath
My Feet
The Earth Beneath My Feet is inspired by the idea of a future away from the earth. The original impulse came from the habitat in Southern Spain, where I live in the only desert in Europe, and where the dry air and the distance from major human settlements result in clear, deep night skies in which the stars can be seen in three dimensions, the distances between them is visible to the eye.
The work was shot in 2019, at the Carnegie telescopes — Las Campanas in the Atacama desert in Chile. Today the direct viewing of faraway places in space rarely happens directly by looking with the naked eye through the telescopes — we see distant phenomena in deep space on screens and through immensely complex digital calculations— the telescopes, sited on top of the highest mountain in the region and held within a completely self-contained environment, are the imaginative tools of astronomers, complex, delicate and surprisingly flimsy.
The Earth Beneath My Feet is a companion piece to I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night sky above my head, my first digital slide/sound piece.
Musician Duncan Bellamy traveled to Chile with me and all the sound within the piece was recorded on site.
The Earth
Beneath
My Feet
The Earth Beneath My Feet is inspired by the idea of a future away from the earth. The original impulse came from the habitat in Southern Spain, where I live in the only desert in Europe, and where the dry air and the distance from major human settlements result in clear, deep night skies in which the stars can be seen in three dimensions, the distances between them is visible to the eye.
The work was shot in 2019, at the Carnegie telescopes — Las Campanas in the Atacama desert in Chile. Today the direct viewing of faraway places in space rarely happens directly by looking with the naked eye through the telescopes — we see distant phenomena in deep space on screens and through immensely complex digital calculations— the telescopes, sited on top of the highest mountain in the region and held within a completely self-contained environment, are the imaginative tools of astronomers, complex, delicate and surprisingly flimsy.
The Earth Beneath My Feet is a companion piece to I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night sky above my head, my first digital slide/sound piece.
Musician Duncan Bellamy traveled to Chile with me and all the sound within the piece was recorded on site.