Indifferent Universe

The idea for the Indifferent Universe series started with my first look through a high-power telescope. Together with a friend we drove to the countryside far away from any city lights and set up the entire device in the pitch-blackness of a winter night. After a bit of fiddling we were able to focus on Jupiter and for the first time in my life the enormity of space stunned me. Seeing planets, stars and nebulae with your own eyes is a totally different experience than watching it online. I suddenly remembered a quote from Stanley Kubrick: "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.", and I knew I had to create work that resembles this feeling of insignificance.