Rachel de Joode – The Residue of Those Celestial Objects Bound to Our Sun by Gravity

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“Humans believe that the solar system is nearly five billion years old. It is made up of eight planets and more than 170 moons, as well as dust, gas and thousands of asteroids and comets orbiting around a central star called The Sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the sisters and brothers of Earth. These Planets are endlessly reproduced and iconized by earthlings. The universe is a fictional museum. Now that Earth has entered a stage of globalization, the next logical step is ‘solarization’. These thoughts are the starting point for the series: the residue of those celestial objects bound to our Sun by gravity. I represent these eight sacred and archaic planetary symbols in a simplified manner, using modem human artifacts to deconstruct the meaning of the solar-planets to human civilization as a whole, examining the meaning of the cosmos through my own reality. I present my universal human ethnographic research in a ‘neutral’ grey space: a museological style, through which I can place historical and cultural tradition in a personal microcosm, creating an earth-vision of space and time in a macrocosm. This series is a modernist abstraction indexing the solar system for myself in order to grasp life and, more specifically, the phenomena of my life in time and space. Using displacement and reclassification of scientific, cultural, historical and contemporary planetary interpretation, my goal, through visualization, is to purify the human conception of the fellow planets orbiting around our Sun.”

Neptune

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Uranus

Saturn

Mercury

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