Commisioned by Jaeger Lecoultre six images from my crystalline planet series are included their Yearbook Nine Autumn 2015.
The theme for 2015 is the cosmos and I am proud to see my work featured alongside Thomas Ruff's rings of Saturn, William A Ewing, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Stan Gaz and his magnificent images of meteor sites among others. The publication also features original images and illustrations from the most epic movie of my childhood 2001 A Space Odyssey.
The publication will be available from today at Jaeger-LeCoultre’s e-Library as well as at Jaeger-LeCoultre boutiques all over the world.
“A question runs through the entire history of mankind: what is the all powerful hand governing the perfect organisation of the universe? The “great watchmaker” referred to by René Descartes is a rational idea of God, a metaphor for His existence in virtue of the world’s physical laws. “Small” watchmakers in their workshops have constantly been stealing tiny portions of this power from the great watchmaker, tirelessly watching and studying the stars to reproduce the march of time in miniature mechanisms, thereby capturing a share of the infinitely large in an infinitely small case.”
— Jaeger-LeCoultre Yearbook Nine
Just as Jaeger-LeCoultre describe their watches as microcosms, my crystalline planets are created by photographing small geological objects such as quartz and geode to become manifestations of vast planets and galaxies.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
