Have you ever strayed off the path while searching for your way? Far, far of the path? So far that it can’t be seen? There are places out there in the world that are untouched, undocumented, and terribly easy to get lost in. They’re distorted, graphic, lost, disconnected. Unimaginable.

​

Satellite is a series of ongoing works, across several mediums, that focuses on sights that we as humans do not have control over and cannot see on our own. Satellite imagery is as honest a view of the world we could hope for, but sometimes it gets confused and confusing. Images of our world from satellites are taken in snapshots, and the lenses and algorithms that put the world together are all done automatically, creating unpredictable and disrupted sights. Atmosphere, pollution, weather and time combining with these algorithmic processes results in sights we could never imagine from where we currently stand.

​

These scenes, these glimpses, are not faults or mistakes. They are simply a perspective of the world we do not control. The series explores themes and topics of humanity’s effect on the world, environmentalism, cartography, technology, digital manipulation and the paths we do not walk. Satellite amplifies these sights and distortions, their beauty, their power and their lack of humanity.

​

- Alexis Chrishunds