The silent message overhead

2024

Concrete, Steel, Lacquer, rubber, electronics

Photos by M HKA

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Inspired by Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.

On an unnamed planet, two nations stand divided. One forbids the sharing of scientific knowledge, because knowledge means power. A new cold war begins, one that deepens through silence and fear.

Where once the exchange of ideas could strengthen humanity, it now collapses under political control. Science bends under the weight of geopolitics; curiosity becomes competition.

The story mirrors our own time. As the International Space Station nears its end, new powers race to claim their own territories in orbit. Politics isolates science, and isolation never leads to progress.

In this world, two satellites drift toward one another. One a military eye bound to Earth, the other an aging research station. Between them grows a forbidden connection, fragile and bright.

A reimagined balcony scene, not in Verona, but in low Earth orbit.A cold war of silence turns warm under starlight.

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