Ash van Dyck
ALIEN LANDSCAPES
Alien Landscapes, a project created within the confines of 35mm slide format is a collage work created using salvaged slides of the universe from a university’s astrophysics department and damaged and end pieces of 35mm film from my own archive with beautiful chemical colours and abstract images. The resulting combinations have created abstract landscapes of imaginary far away worlds.
Using small scale materials that are not intended to be seen and larger ones meant to give us a real view to the universe, I have endeavoured to bring the expanses of space into a new scale that can be held in the palm of our hands, what is real and what is not? Would we ponder these things differently having them in this format? The materials are very real, the combinations give us an unreal view and allow us to dream of faraway worlds.