Below you can travel through the orbits of A Lunar Perspective to explore the project in more depth - through my reflections, tests and experiments, travels out to the sea and some of the things, texts and people I have encountered
moon landing
negotiations of power / projections of power
different expressions of nationalism
policing the border
lunar house and the performance / practice of the border
the materiality of lunar house as a site of border performance
my position in relation to lunar house
etymologies from naming of lunar house
metaphors of space travel from naming of lunar house
politics of space travel
imagining / imaging earth from space
an inverted astronomy
mapping
bordering
using the view from above to distance
google earth’s eye
seamlessness
imaging as a tool of control
forms of control over the earth
my relationship to control
my position in relation to the border
exploring the border through interfaces of text and image
legislation conjuring the border into being
the border as a geographic body
the border as sea
the edge where earth touches ocean
my body in relation to the sea / geographic border
the amorphous body of the sea
the sea as a border confounding attempts at fixity
the physical reality of the waves
the material of the geographic border where sea meets earth
lunar house and its materials
the geographic body of the sea and lunar house as constructions of the border
the verticality of lunar house
my body in relation to the geographic border
other bodies in relation to the water / sea
reducing people into numbers at sea
the dispossession of people at sea
strategic use of the sea as a border
the sea / language as a defence
use of numbers as a tool of distancing
othering through language
language constructing illegality
language constructing the border
language as a place of struggle
the uk’s hostile environment
the permeation of the border
the human scale of the border
the people / human scale within lunar house
materiality of lunar house
the position of looking down as a position of power
power and fragility
the nation as imagined
the nation / home / territory as always shifting and in process
processes of bordering
hostility and hospitality
the ambiguity of the border obscured by a line on a map
the imagined image from above
seamlessness
looking out at the moon
understanding ourselves through our imagined reflection