Photographs, Etchings And Drawings

We are A way For The Cosmos to Know itself

Humankind is desperately trying to understand the inner workings of the universe while trying to understand ourselves at the same time. These are photos of recreated and reinterpreted historic scientific experiments (some dating back to the 17th century) using contemporary technology.

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Collage Prints on Aluminum Panels

Celebrating the scientific method and referencing foundational scientific discoveries with an emphasis on marginalized scientists. Spelletich recreates historic gravity, light, and sound wave experiments that allowed us to understand the scope and scale of our planet, our solar system, know our beginnings and our place among the stars, and the expansive entirety of the cosmos.

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Photos of Optics/Space & Time Experiments

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Laser Etched Marble and Paper-

Laser Etched Drawings, Photos, and Theorems.

This is a project to safeguard precious literature, ideas, images, and texts by literally carving images into marble. For instance, a sketch by Charles Darwin as he was conceiving the science of evolution, specifically the branching pattern of evolution that resulted from a process he called natural selection is etched on Marble with Fossils embedded in it.

I am creating a version of a time capsule via hard copy. Inspired by the Rosetta Stone to the Roanoke Tablets (the Dare Stones), to cave art to Egyptian cuneiform.
I have been thinking about the current attacks on science, loss of wisdom, knowledge, encryption, keys, hieroglyphics, cryptograms, translations, poetry, information security, confidentiality, hacking, data integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, passwords, media rights, and censorship in my life as well as other times.

As George Orwell recognized: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
From the burning of The Library of Alexandria to safeguarding against censors, book burners and the inevitable digital crash – How can pertinent knowledge be saved?

3/01/2019
Kal Spelletich

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