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Jacob Jessen: I Miss the Simpler Times When Birds Were Falling Out of the Sky

2013-15
Installation view (detail)
My childhood copies of LIFE Nature Library, a series of scientific books published by LIFE Magazine in the sixties. The books came to represent what was general knowledge about the world in my childhood. Due to the size of the universe, in theory, all possible constellations of stars exist. If we where free to choose our point of view, every configuration of points we could think of, would actually be observable from somewhere.