Friday, 13 May 2016

Journal Entry #3 - The Natural History Museum - "Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System"

Friday 13th May 2016

I went to this exhibition after the "Exploring Space" talk so I did have a bit of a space themed day.

This exhibition is a photographic gallery by Michael Benson, containing music by Brian Eno. The gallery is absolutely breathtaking. Benson has managed to make the photographs so clear and so pristine, and the detail is just unimaginable. The photographs ranged from planets, moons, asteroids and stars and I must say the experience was phenomenal. There is something quite therapeutic about these images as you could just stare at them for hours in order to talk in the detail. My favourite pieces were probably those containing the Sun as the images were so striking and the colours so vivid.  

Thank you Michael Benson and Brian Eno for bringing a calming environment to such a chaotic place such as the universe - one that brings more questions than it answers.

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