This is how we look for Others – Blue Dot

For SALE / KOOS gallery

/ Acrylic landscape painting, EPO resin, MDF – dimensions 2.5 x 2.5 meters, dome diameter_1.9 meters, projection from the wall 54 centimeters /
 

Authors Oliver Soomets and Argo Männik

2023

The artwork represents, in a modern landscape painting interpretation, a cosmic dot taken from the outer reaches of the solar system – the Kuiper Belt. Astronomer Carl Sagan had Voyager 1 capture a photo of Earth on February 14, 1990, just before leaving the solar system, resulting in a tiny blue “pixel,” a barely noticeable blue dot amidst the vastness of the dark emptiness. The image spread globally in the media with the message: “This is what we look like to Others.” In NASA and the American administration’s words: “That’s here. That’s us. That’s home.”
 
It’s a portrait of “Us”. The artist attempts to interpret and closely examine this blurry image from a distance, looking into the blue planet, whose uniqueness lies in the fact that everything around us is happening for real. We are part of this fragility, and we have the opportunity to be part of a tremendous accident that aimlessly moves somewhere and, at the same time, appears as a barely noticeable anonymous point from the edge of the universe.
 
The given painting is a II part of the triological painting series “The Gaze of God.

https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

Detail views and different light situations