Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

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Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

Is there life on Mars? Someone is waiting for the results of space research and official reports of scientists, and someone does not waste time and gives their own answer to this question, fantasizing and endlessly surprising us with variations on the theme "what could have been?" and "why not?"

Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

One of the most interesting interpretations of the alien theme came from photographers and conceptual artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick. Their project "Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea" consists of one painting, two dozen photographs, eight large sculptures of cement or cement and tin, and fifty small sculptures of tin and lead. …

Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

Some of the landscapes that Kahn and Selesnik present to our attention are truly alien: the authors took them from the official NASA website. But another part of the images has a completely terrestrial origin: they can show the nature of the American states of Utah and Nevada.

Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

In many images, we see an earthly woman who first came to an alien planet and studied it. However, she arrived on Mars not so much with a research goal as from despair, fleeing some terrible catastrophe that befell the Earth. At the same time, the woman discovers mainly the remnants of a former civilization: Mars does not give the impression of a prosperous and densely populated planet. And it is not surprising that in most of the images of the project there is a feeling of sadness and loneliness.

Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?
Alien Chronicles, or Is There Life on Mars?

Richard Selesnik and Nicholas Kahn were born in 1964 in New York and London, respectively. The authors met while studying at Washington University in St. Louis, and a couple of years after graduation, in 1988, they began joint creative activities. Selesnik and Kahn mainly work on the creation of complex photo novels and sculptural installations.

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