As I have mentioned previously I find the exploration of space vastly inspirational. I believe in publicly funding science, and education. I wanted to include this imagery into Kino. A bit of research starting with NASA’s Voyager missions led me to a series of images and animations created from the Cassini mission.

What would the Kinoks have thought of sending a machine to Jupiter to look at what was there in multiple wave lengths? A very mechanical eye.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-stunning-video-from-cassini-captures-the-voyage-of-jupiter-s-moons

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/raw-images/raw-image-viewer/?order=earth_date+desc&per_page=50&page=2

I was hoping to avoid creating a narrative in the work that I was producing, I wanted to find a way to draw from the natural beauty of the images without adding a documentary narrative.

In my earliest explorations for Kino I had been looking at projecting images back into the environment, I had run into trouble with this due to the low refresh rate of the battery powered projector that I was using. After a brief detour looking at how I could find similar patterns to the planetary images in everyday objects (this did not fill me with wonder), I settled on projecting the images onto other surfaces so that they became reworked, but using a more powerful projector. I did a few tests with some cardboard models as the projection surface as I was thinking of looking at the link between pure blue sky exploration and the materials that enter our lives, but ultimately I settled on my own eyes as the canvas.

I really wanted to use the real Cassini images rather than similar images that I had generated because it is the visceral reality of a machine of our creation being up there that I find so engaging. I wanted to try and get some sense for myself of the randomness and luck involved in these missions with them being flown so remotely so once I had selected the clips that I like I used a random number generator to take small sections of the animations and put these onto a timeline. This randomness would be interesting to explore further in a future project. Below are the animations that were used for the source of the projection.