Another Planet Seems to be Too Close to Me

As a child, I feared planets being impossibly close, their presence pressing against my body. Through Vashlovani’s alien landscapes, I explore distance, detachment, and the strange feeling of being both far from and too close to another world.

Another Planet Seems to be Too Close to Me

As a child, my worst nightmare was that other planets – whether celestial or other, metaphorical bodies – were too close to me. I could almost feel their presence pressing down against my own body.

These pictures are highly personal – in the sense that they show the process of my inner feelings – as well as highly detached. In my experimentation with distance and landscape, I try to conjure feelings of being far from and too close to things at the same time.

One day, whilst in a state of dramatic detachment from reality that is altogether not too uncommon to me, I decided to visit a place that was still, to me, unexplored. To visit it, then to expose it.

Vashlovani landscapes have otherworldly appearance and seem to be alien planet right here on my own Earth. Planets can hardly get much closer!