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"On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical...." — Trevor Paglen
On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.
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View AllIt was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.— Trevor Paglen
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