A matter of perspective
During the last session we talked a lot about Sci-fi, that was concentrated on space. The starting point of the exploration of space was during the Cold War, so it is fundamentally connected with the idea of growth and growing faster than the other one. Since the landing on the moon we are imagining the world as the blue marble, something abstract, something distant, although we all live on it. This is the perspective we all grew up with and I think it is the wrong perspective, because it focuses on the earth as this untouchable thing, not as a fragile system. It is neither a human perspective, nor a perspective of nature (nature defined as plants, animals etc. on earth). Even in the drawings we saw during the session the subject „perspective“ was very important, often it tried to show the human perspective on another planet, which is a technique to feel connected to the situation. This being my thinking for the fast transfer, I tried out what perspective can do to us, how it changes the way of thinking about something: is it distant, far away, as the blue marble? So basically something I have nothing to do with. Am I just the objective observer, or am I in the middle of it, being subjective? During the process, changing the lens length of the camera view had an interesting effect. In the beginning, things started to look bigger, more stuff was visible, in the end it turned to be some abstract almost 2-dimensional drawing, you can not really imagine what it actually is. So changing the perspective in such an extreme way can be very irritating in the beginning, but sometimes it’s necessary.
