Space Mottos (2019) is a series of digital collages that are composed by two elements, images of space from the NASA online archive and national mottos from the national mottos page of Wikipedia.
Jidhu Krishnamurti said that "nationalism is the glorification of tribalism”. Tribalism is indeed one of the characteristics of our species. Where humans live, a sense of a tribe arises and develops. It's hard to imagine humans without the sense of belonging to some tribe because the tribal sense is so fundamental to our conditioned way of thinking. Our identity as particular individuals is based on it and although tribal consciousness is essential in defining a collective ego-identity what does it really say about us, as a species? How does our limited identification as members of a particular group functions when it is seen from the perspective of infinity? And how does our culture look like from the viewpoint of space consciousness? *
* Space Consciousness is a term used by Eckhart Tolle. Accoring to Tolle Space Consciousness represents not only freedom from ego, but also from dependency on the things of this world, from materialism and materiality. It is the spiritual dimension which alone can give transcendent and true meaning to this world.
https://www.ifocus.gr/magazine/fotografika-portfolios-synenteykseis/2366-space-mottos#sigProId3011f641b2