Annihilation
Digital collage using NASA images and own photographs
Borman Eclipsing
Digital collage using NASA images and own photographs
Earthrise
Digital collage using NASA images and own photographs
God
Digital collage using NASA images and own photographs
Overmen
Digital collage using NASA images and own photographs
Transmission #1
Hand-made collage using NASA images and own photographs
Transmission #2
Hand-made collage using NASA images and own photographs
2018: Apollo 8
Gaffa Gallery
November-December 2019
Apollo 8’s crew were the first humans to leave earth orbit and look down on the moon. Their leap into the void was arguably more significant than the more famous first moon landing that followed several months later. Of its many profound aspects, this exhibition focuses on the crew’s decision to read from the book of Genesis during a television broadcast from lunar orbit on Christmas eve 1968. This gesture instinctively articulated the limits of human creative powers, even as these powers were manifesting in seemingly limitless ways. It has been criticized as anti-secular, anti-science, and for diminishing the glory of ‘man’. However, it is viewed here as a triumph of humility over hubris which may prove instructive as we navigate new technological and metaphysical unknowns.