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This image of a jet engine cowling was shot in the Mojave Desert at an aircraft graveyard. It comes from Part II my fictional Cosmologica series. Cosmologica documents a fictional space exploration mission using the 19th-century printing technique known as cyanotype. The series uses photographs of real-world spaceports, dust clouds, and light to tell the story of an explorer’s journey across the cosmos to a new planet. I have long had a passion for space, but am grounded on Earth with camera in hand. Instead of actually flying to space, Cosmologica is an imaginary mission that contemplates our time and place in the cosmos. In Part II of the series, the astronaut explorer resolves to take a closer look at a newly discovered planet and touches down at what appears to be a purpose-built desert spaceport. Earthly images in this part of the series are re-framed in cyanotype to remind us that our home is a planet in a vast and mysterious cosmos. Upon landing at the spaceport, the explorer discovers hundreds of abandoned airships and artifacts. Clearly, this planet once hosted a sky faring civilization, but where now are the individuals who built these ships? Were they wiped out in a mass extinction event? Did they leave the planet behind? All of these questions are jumping-off points as the viewer peers at a vision of the future through a photographic medium from the 1800s. I developed this image in cyanotype, a 19th-century printing method that I use to tell stories of futurism, spaceflight, and our place in a theorized multiverse. My use of cyanotype pays homage to the forebearers of the medium, who used it to capture photograms of flora or scenes of bridge building on the Mississippi River in the 1800s. It is because cyanotype has its historic roots in depicting earthy subjects that it now casts visions of the future in a captivating and believable light. It is this new narrative direction for the medium that is the starting place for my work.

Photography:cyanotype on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 18 H x 0.1 D in

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