Monday, November 24, 2008



I am totally intrigued by this picture, and not really because of anything that has to do with the actual installation, which is a work by Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba and can be found at www.mizuma-one.com.

It is really interesting to me the way that the surrounding objects all look like satellites orbiting the earth, and that they are all objects of various ambiguity, at least through the picture. It is interesting to apply a juxtaposition of say, celebrity (having the satellites be cameras) or people watching, or maybe taking it further to surveilliance or control. Also, if thinking about satellites, they are man made objects to watch us, and in turn, what are they watching? Do we have control over what they see and who can see it? I don't know, not to sound trite, but it also remind me of that scene in Wall-E where the entire Earth has been covered in this mechanical cloud of satellites from BnL. It's like, how much technology do we need before it's just clutter?

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