The Earth’s orbit is a dangerous minefield of space debris with more than half a million pieces in orbit due to the detrimental ambitions of commercial companies using space in an inefficient and unsustainable way.
Space debris is collected and sent back via a space elevator to be repurposed in Boca Chica, Texas. An area that was once a landscape of natural wildlife now a place of intense industrialisation due to SpaceX facilities.
Between the space facilities is the land-art complex made from collected space debris that spreads across Boca Chica. Space debris becomes the material, and the earth becomes the canvas. The land-art acts as mediators between the environment and the commercial space companies. Not as an act of activism or ecology but as a way of expanding awareness of sustainable use of outer space and the earth.
The complex will be a permanent drawing on the land expressing the gesture of what it portrays. The element of permanence responses to the sheer scale of the land-art as it heightens the senses of the viewers’ perception questioning the existence of the land art.
The future of how our orbit is used transforms the complex through the progressive expansion of the land-art through the passage of time. The materiality and message will be supported through satellite imagery throughout the years which documents the amount of space debris produced, making the invisible threat of man-made orbital debris visible to humanity.
Space debris is collected and sent back via a space elevator to be repurposed in Boca Chica, Texas. An area that was once a landscape of natural wildlife now a place of intense industrialisation due to SpaceX facilities.
Between the space facilities is the land-art complex made from collected space debris that spreads across Boca Chica. Space debris becomes the material, and the earth becomes the canvas. The land-art acts as mediators between the environment and the commercial space companies. Not as an act of activism or ecology but as a way of expanding awareness of sustainable use of outer space and the earth.
The complex will be a permanent drawing on the land expressing the gesture of what it portrays. The element of permanence responses to the sheer scale of the land-art as it heightens the senses of the viewers’ perception questioning the existence of the land art.
The future of how our orbit is used transforms the complex through the progressive expansion of the land-art through the passage of time. The materiality and message will be supported through satellite imagery throughout the years which documents the amount of space debris produced, making the invisible threat of man-made orbital debris visible to humanity.
