There were a lot of ideas swirling around this topic for me. There are 3 concepts that readily jumped out:
- Space between objects.
- Outer space
- space between people (not the physical kind)
I decided to use a picture I took while I was on the S5, on my way to our housing in Berlin, as a base. This was the first time I the concept of ‘space’ came to my mind in Berlin. I am used to cities being crammed, and this was my first realization that Berlin was not such a city. The buildings and architecture were ‘spaced’. There was a lot of space to walk, to run, to ride and to see.
Here is the original picture:
A few years ago, I spent a some days in Sariska, Rajasthan, India. Sariska is a dark site, and as such is a great place to look at the stars. I edited the sky and ground in the image to a picture of a star trial (this is similar to a few pictures I captured, but alas I couldn’t find them in time). While incomplete without the context of creation, I wanted this image to signify space between people. People can live next to each other, even know each other, but at the same time be light years apart. This led us here:
