Many Moons


  • Photographer
    Rodrigo Chapa
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2012-2013
  • Technical Info
    Analogue photography

Two elements meet in each frame, the first is taken from everyday life, a landscape, a bird, clouds, in any case, the context is our planet. A second element is repeated throughout the images, one that conflicts with the first, redefining it, challenging the viewer to solve the puzzle, to place the scene in a valid context. Series done using analog processes, no digital manipulation except for scanning and dust cleaning.

Story

If we were to say that our planet is alive, we could compare it to the organisms that inhabit it. Its forests remind me of hair, liquid molten rock in its core is like our blood, we can find similitudes for pores, veins and cells, and like the Earth, living things are the planets to smaller organisms.
According to physicist Michio Kaku, we are going from a type zero ("planetary"), to a type one ("stellar") civilization, which implies that we will no longer get our energy from organic resources, but from the ones in outer space. This represents a big danger to our existence, the reason for not having found life in other planets could be its self destruction during this transition. Could this process be compared to death?
The Moon and the Sun for me, are like extremities for our planet, tools that help control some things that happen inside this large scale organism. In my series, I give the Earth some new tools since a stellar civilization is able to "play with stars". Having heard the words of Michio, this is a representation of what I think our planet will look like in one hundred years from today.

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