Ethereum

Immersive - May 30 2020 by Christopher James

Collection

Untitled Collection #252906009

Description

This photo is not only of a unique moment in history, it was created with authenticity and transparency. The image was made with a vintage Minolta SRT Super using Kodak Gold film. The film was professionally developed and scanned to create this digital art object. On May 30, 2020, the global death toll from COVID-19 reached 365,011. Despite the emerging pandemic disaster, the dawn still rose golden and hopeful. This image was made on the eastern coast of Australia, experimenting with a slow reduction in lockdown measures. A dark black bar partially obliterates the sun on the right hand side. This artefact, created at the moment of exposure from a dragging shutter on the vintage camera, adds an ominous tone. The blurred seagull, effortlessly hovering and out of focus in the foreground, leads the eye up to the hardy souls braving the waves on the rock shelf in the distance. The metaphor, of the natural world out of focus and humans being both complicit and courageous in exposing themselves to danger, is particularly poignant on this day. This image is permanently stored on Arweave: https://app.ardrive.io/#/file/c2b82056-261a-48b3-82a7-4309e636c739/view

Token

Contract: 0x495f...7b5e
Token ID: 29158143519667306174679199233279327141713317366366149551083667375119658909697

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