People have suddenly difficulty in breathing, what's going on? We can generally define these difficult times as respiratory emergencies. Respiratory emergencies originated by Covid-19 infection are becoming a cause of suffocation: A dangerous new Virus (microcosm) has suddenly stopped humanity as a whole, without distinguishing among age, ethnicity or social class. It has halted and distancing the social being par excellence: humans.
On the contrary, this STOP has made possible for the entire planet Earth (macrocosm) to breath: The Earth which in modern times has been subjected to exposure to chemicals or other toxins emitted by human activity.
There are many real effects of the absence of human activity; in addition to leaving space for the terrestrial and marine world, this absence has suddenly spurred the cleanness of the air and the purity from the gaseous emissions, absolutely dangerous for the protection from the sun's rays, the ozone layer.
Then, the title of my artistic challenge "Macrocosm and Microcosm: breath emergency!" refers to a vision of cosmos where every part reflects the whole and vice versa. I have tried to recover an idea present in many esoteric philosophical models, and - through a female image- to explain what happened in my life and in the life of the Planet during this year 2020.
I have taken a digital figure from the source of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the image of the hidden side of the Moon, precisely because this image portrays the ancestral female archetype. Then, I have superimposed on it the portrait of a model and transfigured her skin in the surface of a new planet. Thanks to this double exposure, my transformation brings a sense of great introspection to the facial mimic traits and adds a sadness for the enormous human losses she has suffered. Every changes and challenges that this new woman-planet, like me, will have to face in the future are bringing her deep meditation.
I digitally superimposed on the model’s face the image of the tree trunk of a Tuscan mulberry to strengthen the idea of an intimate connection between Macrocosm and Microcosm; its thousand ramifications recall the same design of the conformation of a pulmonary alveolus, an icon of the emergency from Covid-19 infection. Title of the digital artistic work "Macrocosm and Microcosm: breath emergency!".
Macrocosm and microcosm: "As above, so below and vice versa; the world was created in this way, the small in the likeness of the great and vice versa."
Then, the title of my artistic challenge "Macrocosm and microcosm" refers to a vision of cosmos where every part reflects the whole and vice versa. I have tried to recover an idea present in many esoteric philosophical models, and - through a female image- to explain what happened in my life and in the life of the Planet during this year 2020. I have taken a digital figure from the source of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the image of the hidden side of the Moon, precisely because this image portrays the ancestral female archetype. Then, I have superimposed on it the portrait of a model and transfigured her skin in the surface of a new planet. Thanks to this double exposure, my transformation brings a sense of great introspection to the facial mimic traits and adds a sadness for the enormous human losses she has suffered. Every changes and challenges that this new woman-planet, like me, will have to face in the future are bringing her deep meditation.
The artistic photo files were made using the app: BeFunky photo editor.
The video of artistic photography was made by me using the app: Microsoft photo editor Windows 10
https://youtu.be/bAwoVu9F2MY
"What does the far side of the moon look like? Until the mid-twentieth century, no human being in history had known the answer. But everything changed in 1959, when the Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft launched into space. In October of the same year, the probe is located on the opposite side of the moon and transmits the first grainy images of its surface to Earth. Over fifty years later, our vision of the moon has greatly improved thanks to observations from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The spacecraft has been orbiting the moon since 2009, collecting hundreds of terabytes of data showing developments in creating highly detailed maps of its topography, including the mysterious side of the moon. This updated view of the far side was seen from the lunar surface measurements provided by NASA's LRO spacecraft. A NASA spacecraft provides a new look at a place that humans only receive by dreaming of seeing a few decades ago."
To find the two basic images on which I built the definitive digital artistic image I started my research from this link: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/index.html
After enjoying viewing the animations of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival from this link: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/SIGGRAPH_2015.html (the leading annual festival for innovative digital film and video creators) is then I continued the search through the link: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11747 I chose the two files to use in my digital artistic product:
1) https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011700/a011747/s2m-1920.jpg
2) https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011700/a011747/cm-1280.jpg
For the background music of the 30 second video I used:
Track: Broke In Summer — Hello Capitano [Audio Library Release]
Music provided by Audio Library Plus
Watch: https://youtu.be/8IuD1YkSUO8
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