Blog #10

The exploration of space has led to more discoveries that have just lead to more questions. Marie and I both throughout this class have both have been interested in learning more about our exploration. During the class, we have both gone through different forms of exploration and found different ends to a mean in these explorations. At first our bodies of work had seemed to be in completely separate categories until we looked at the main drivers behind the works. Exploration and space. 
 
We decided to meld our two ways of expressing these interests into one. In Marie's project's she has focused on knowledge. What people know versus what they don't know and if they even know what they don't know. She has focused on the obvious and played with the hidden, and melded the two together in her previous projects. In my own work, I have focused on time and the shift in perspective on simple objects. I did this in several different ways, but the most successful was shifting the scale of a planet entirely. Forcing people to look at objects that they see most everyday but transforming them into something that they wouldn't expect. While the two seem on paper to be definitively different we have melded them together. In this project to collectively explore what we both are driven by. 

In this project, we aim to overtly get people thinking about what they do know versus what they don't know. The more we start to learn about the universe the more that we learn we don't know much about it at all. Europa is one of the moons orbiting around Jupiter that is primarily made out of ice. We know that the basis of life, at least on Earth, was from water and we can then gather that at some point it is possible that there was life on Europa. Marie and I want to delve into that known unknown. We know what is possible and we know that we as a human race have little to no knowledge of the history of that planet. We have decided to fill in what we don't know with our own truth. Looking at what is truth versus what is reality and do we know the difference between the two. Inadvertently the exploration of this planet draws to question the exploration of our own planet. Europa essentially being a layer of ice floating on an ocean underneath and our need to explore that planet before looking at our own ocean to discover what is right in front of us. This need we as a human race have to discover these things that are out of reach before discovering one of the greatest mysteries that is right in front of us. 



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