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"On the first day of Chemistry in high school, my teacher showed us an oscillating chemical reaction. This type of reaction consists of two reagents mixed together to form a mixture that switches between two vibrant colors very quickly. The teacher most likely showed it to us to spark our interest for the subject. Three years later I was still thinking about it. I was inspired that two chemicals mixed could create such beauty spontaneously. Organic materials have a capability to interact in ways that look inorganic. I sought to harness this capability and dictate the ways in which they interact.
After some experiments with food coloring, paints, milk, luminescent liquid, rubbing alcohol, and soap, I started filming and the result was beautiful. Not only did the images look natural, they could look exotic and unfamiliar depending on the amount I tampered. I had not planned on the images bearing likeness to outer space, but after seeing that they did, my interests coalesced to just that.
The Voyager 1 is a spacecraft launched by NASA in the 1970’s to study the outer solar system. The scientists who launched Voyager knew they would eventually lose contact with the craft and it would drift into space forever. Because of it’s fate, a highly controversial decision was made to collect sounds from assorted human activities. Greetings in all languages, babies crying, poems, and Mozart were put onto a “Golden Record.” Additionally, images of humans and instructions on how to find Earth were embedded on to the Gold. The film itself is a journey following Voyager. Starting at the very basis of life on Earth—dirt, water and germination.
The first segment that takes place on Earth seeks to establish what we know as typical organicity. As we look up, we see the moon, stars, a planet. Things that are familiar to us only in the sense that we know they exist. As we follow Voyager, we move further away and see planetary and celestial events. Eventually, we reach a point at which anything would absolutely lose contact with Earth and thus lose transmission capability. We are not sure what we are seeing anymore. The static clouds our ability to make out sense in the images. Then, we are past the threshold of human understanding and suddenly surpass any shadow of familiarity. We are at a critical point where, as humans, the rules we use to decipher stimuli are bent and broken. We see everything clearer than ever now. We continue to move past the infinite until we can see the webbing of the universe itself. After journeying beyond the edge of the universe, the last thing we expect to hear is a human voice. In the Epilogue, the audio from Voyager’s Golden Record plays. Once again, we see images of Earth, DNA, diagrams of the composition of our atmosphere—things that are familiar to us. We experience this once more because Voyager represents human reach. Humanity’s arm stretches farther than we know; it stretches beyond what we understand. Was it wise to share the delicate details of human biology? To throw it into something that vast and beyond our understanding? Is it wise to seek answers to questions we don’t know exist yet? These are the questions Voyage raises. It’s up to you to decide."