Google Earth Bible
A bunch of Australian artists, The Glue Society, have developed a set of google earth like images based on the Bible: Adam and Eve sunbathe in the Garden of Eden, Noah’s ark is washed up on some rocks, Moses and company cross the Red Sea and Christ is crucified. [Go to work/new/miami art fair on the link]
The aerial viewpoint has become common place with satellite and Earth from the Air imagery. It sees the world from a distant place, observing often beautiful patterns, form and rhythm that our limited ground level viewpoint never reveals. Somehow it is also rather humbling. People appear as little specks on the surface of a huge planet. The viewpoint is often termed a birds eye view.
The first three images I could take or leave, they’re amusing and curious, but the final one, the crucifixion, unnerves me. Assuming the stereotype that God is ‘up there’, somewhere seeing the google birds eye view, then Christ comes to us as a fellow speck, a small bunch of pixels on a vast image.
[Thanks to BLDGBLOG for the link.]
