{"id":314,"date":"2021-09-27T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udo.leonvieth.com\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2021-11-07T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:47:53","slug":"the-absurd-beauty-of-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/udovieth.art\/en\/projects\/the-absurd-beauty-of-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"The absurd beauty of the anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Caspian sea\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a041\u00b056′ N\u00a0 50\u00b0 40′ E\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seabed destroyed and marked by bottom trawling.<\/p>

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Toxic swirls<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Algae bloom in the Baltic sea.\u00a0 Swedisch south coast around the island Gotland. Driven by overfertilisation, sewage, lack of oxygen and high temperatures the algae bloom reached expansion of 200.000\u00a0 Square Km. (changing winds caused the swirls, lines and patterns)<\/p>

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Tamed Mississippi<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Meandering Mississippi\u00a0 vs\u00a0 farmland geometry\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0 south of Memphis, Tennessee, USA<\/p>

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Former tropical dry forest\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bolivien, Santa Cruz 17\u00b047′\u00a0 S\u00a0 , 63\u00b0 12′ W\u00a0<\/p>

– been cleared\u00a0 for radial patterned farmland. (The colors show the growth status of the crops. Sinuous lines represent smaller rivers)<\/p>

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It is always nice to have support “from above”. My support orbits the earth at an altitude of 786 kilometers. They are earth observation satellites with amazing features. In terms of design, however, they are unfortunately a bit plain, with a lot of function but little form. Therefore, I have transformed them into bionic butterflies. Also because of the perspective. In addition, the beautiful insect represents transformation, the magic of the moment and the ephemeral.<\/p>

The high-tech butterflies in orbit are my eyes on the earth. They observe over wide ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum – with the perception of a human, a butterfly, a machine. Of an alien?\u00a0<\/p>

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In their flood of images, I go on a voyage of discovery. An explorer of the modern kind, operating from the digital station at home. With basic food and stimulants within reassuring reach and protected from pesky insects or worse.\u00a0 My digital helpers in orbit give me freedom and opportunity to visit almost any place in the world in a timely manner. And to dis- and uncover \u00a0from an unusual perspective both millennia-old and newly emerging structures of the earth’s surface.\u00a0<\/p>

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Like the new geometry of a nature tamed, ordered and controlled by man. The profit maximization of the Anthropocene gives birth here to a rapid transformation of the earth’s surface of partly absurd, destructive beauty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Or the hitherto hidden, wild and complex geometry of the “old” world. A world of slow transformation, of the seemingly chaotic and random.<\/p>

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20 years ago I started in my documentaries about the climate ( more info: https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org ‘ wiki ‘ Udo_Vieth)\u00a0<\/p>

to work with satellite images. Fascinating photos of cloud formations, dune structures and water eddies. Today these multispectral photographs and measurements form the raw material for my artistic works.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t