Emi(l)ssion Nebula, 2024

Digital print, paper, vinyl record, telescope, lithography

Sometimes it seems that all areas on Earth have already been explored; there is no such place where you can feel completely alone, where you would be the first wanderer. And if there are, it is very difficult or even impossible to reach them. But one day I discovered the world’s most remote place and the widest distances in a quite unexpected place—a lithography print. I created my own planet by enlarging the print to 3000 square meters and exploring it like an unknown area of the earth, like a white spot on a map, like space on earth. I turned all the visual information of its area into sound waves, which I placed on a vinyl record like a message in a bottle, using the same principle as in the Golden Record project by NASA. The exhibition only shows a small fragment of my planet, and the whole can be seen by opening the contents of the vinyl record. In this piece, I am talking about the desire to distance oneself, intertwined with the desire to discover something very close.