My Apollo
Archival pigment prints, 2017
In 2015, NASA released nearly 15,000 original, high-resolution and unedited, photographs from all 17 Apollo missions to the moon. Out of sheer wonder and curiosity, I began sifting through this vast archive. I was immediately swept away. I wandered through imagery like floating through space, jaw agape at what I was seeing. The photos illustrate an eager and first look at our tiny, but beautiful, blue home. They show us our moon, a once exotic and mythical body, in great physical detail. Sunsets and rises are seen like never before. At the same time, we also get to see all the failures, the attempts, the learning and searching. In the bad exposures, blurry accidents and bracketed sequences we are reminded of our innate humanness.
In, My Apollo, I have chosen a small collection of images from the archive, either intrigued by their abstraction, or by an impulse hard to describe. The images are enlarged, isolated and positioned as aesthetic tools. They are also carefully sequenced to suggest a fresh, open-ended narrative. Within this context, the reader navigates a newly sorted universe, one in which many voices are spoken and questions are the only answers. A culture that reveals its own futility. This is my mission. This is, My Apollo.
