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Artist Cassandra Hanks
College Station, Texas USA
Silicate Craters
Fine Art Photography
Artist Statement
The terrain of our neighboring planets serves as a hypothetical landscape for what Earth used to be, could have been, or might become. Alien Landscapes is a photographic series of fabricated planetary environments which create prophetic possibilities of other extraterrestrial realities.
Based on data gathered from rovers, satellites, telescopes, and scientists, I recreate these landscapes through constructed photography. I use organic materials and in-camera effects to fabricate miniature designs of planet terrains in our solar system. Viewers are presented with fictional possibilities, based on actual scientific data, of places we know exist but have not yet seen.
Due to its lack of atmosphere Mercury’s landscape is composed of grey silicate material with many craters. By introducing a combination of water drops and the ends of paint brushes, craters emerged from grey ash. A gridded star map of holes punched into backing completed the sky, illuminated by a strobe light to create a slight “bloom”, or fuzzy halo, around each star.
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