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Words for the Moon

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about our experience of time in contrast to the age of our landscapes. How the layers of Earth’s surface are changing as we spin around the sun and have been for billions of years, and will continue to do so for an unthinkably long time. For my current solo exhibition, Dark Reflections, I made an audio photographic installation that examines how having access to dark skies helped to shape my thinking around the formation of our landscapes. You can see the piece called Ascending, here.

We each see the environment in different ways that might reflect lots of things about our lives, including our location. I have always consciously reached out to connect with the night skies above me, whether in a heavily light polluted city or in a remote mountainous landscape. The night skies remind me of the curvature of the Earth and even if there are only a few stars in the sky, they still open a window into the cosmos. These lights help to cradle my anxieties and experiences beneath a cosmic veil.

I have always loved the idea that we all look at the same Moon in the sky, and some of us probably have similar conversations about the phases as they pass. Throughout history, everyone we have ever known and all of our ancestors have looked at this same Moon. Will any human eyes be looking at the Moon thousands of years from now?

I would like to invite you to share one word/ phrase or sentence that you think of when you think about the Moon.