Floating in Space

These images were created for the Margate School: Art, Society, Nature: Photography Residency 2021.

Pale Blue Dot Collective created three images depicting how solitary beings are all connected, using images of the coastline shot in Walpole Bay and the night sky shot in Margate and Minster.

Our images examine the parallels between floating in the ocean and Earth moving through our solar system. The work is contemplative in nature, as we investigate the giant landscape of the sea-life and plant-life that lives in Walpole Bay, removing our human-centric scale, to the glittering dark skies of Margate. We invite the viewer to imagine how we fit into our ecosystem and how our ecosystem fits into the cosmos. This work explores the fragile nature of our coastal area and shows the connection between all of us, as we stand and gaze over the horizon, or out towards our galaxy.

Alongside this photographic work, we created a soundscape from the movement of the waves and life above the waterline.