Codes of Earth Today:The sequence of truth and lies
On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a high-resolution picture of the earth and the moon from Saturn, about 1.5 billion kilometers from earth. It was a fantastic image of Saturn and its magnificent rings in the backlight from the sun, like huge and terrifying treasures. In the right corner of the image, there is a small faint blue spot--the earth we live on. It is so small and deep, like a casual drift of dust. Its background is endless darkness.
The earth is 4.55 billion years old, formed from debris in the universe that has accumulated over billions of years. On December 24, 1968, as the Apollo 8 spacecraft circled the moon, astronaut William Anders photographed the earth on the lunar skyline. In this famous photograph called Earthrise, earthlings see for the first time how beautiful their planet is. The beautiful colors are composed of oceans, mountains, rivers and clouds. Over the course of billions of years, hundreds of millions of species have emerged, multiplied and disappeared. Human beings are the most intelligent species that have emerged in the history of the earth. All these constitute the earth civilization. Moreover, human beings later use their wisdom to change the natural earth civilization into a humanized earth civilization, and human beings become the ruler of the earth.
In the humanized earth civilization, everything on the earth has been symbolized by human beings. Earth civilization has also become a huge symbol system. In this system, politics, economics and science form different cultural subsets. People have become a symbolized species, divided into ethnic groups, families and countries in the symbols and codes that constitute symbols. All human hope, love, care, understanding, trust, suspicion, and struggle also fluctuate and surge with the turbulent flow of symbols and codes.
To present the status of earth civilization today, we need to recognize it from the perspective of symbols and codes. The purpose of this exhibition of images is to show the reflection of many artists and photographers on various issues of the world today.
