SKYBRARIAN

It has become hard to stand still, wrapped in the glory of a single image, as the original viewers of old paintings used to do. The flood of images has increased our access to wonders and at the same time lessened our sense of wonder. We live in inescapable surfeit. A number of artists are using this abundance as their starting point, setting their own cameras aside and turning to the horde — collecting and arranging photographs that they have found online. These artist collectors, in placing one thing next to another, create a third thing — and this third thing, like a subatomic particle produced by a collision of two other particles, carries a charge.

The flaming signs of the Universe hidden from our senses will flash before man's spectroscopic eye in their infinite variety, and the voice of the elements will penetrate audibly to his spectroscopic ear. A new and strange communion between him and Nature will lavish its cornucopia of chemical secrets, of which our painfully acquired science does not even dream, on the man of the future.