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  • Cosmology
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization

Ghosts and Flowers

Phillip
Birch
Issue:
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A 2D image of a black and white ghost holding a flower stands in front a toilet and a red leather sofa. A mirror reflects an image of a child in the middle of the room. Below the image is a caption explaining the context of the image.

I kept considering what happens when liminal space becomes static—how we are all stuck in this transition with the expectation of a return of normalcy, but in actuality there is no neutral, there is no normal. Normal is a veneer in which a few have the privilege of living under.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization

ABOVE BELOW

Sarah Rosalena
Balbuena-Brady
Issue:
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AI-generated textile, cotton, training: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite images, 2020

Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.

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