"I first thought of the piece whilst imagining all the objects, people and things flying around the planet at any one moment—all of these manmade ‘orbits’." Paterson says. "I was thinking, 'what can I send into a new orbit?' Naturally, a piece of the Moon."
Through bringing these space objects into contact with the day-to-day of our lives, Paterson brings a little of their mystery with it, igniting out imaginations with the perplexity of the universe. "I’m drawn to space for its depth—its beyondness, its expansiveness and mystery, its ancientness." she notes. "I work with concepts of time—human time, geologic time, cosmic time, and how humans relate within the vast web of existence. To the furthest away darkness in the universe, and the billions of other planets that likely exist all around us. Second Moon will ‘orbit’ the earth in a very ordinary way, nevertheless, where our imagination takes us can be totally out of the ordinary."@stewart23rd
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