2015
Imagine being in these planes knowing that you only had moments to live, and knowing that you could do nothing about it. What brought you to that point, what decisions did you take as a human being (or were taken for you) that enacted this scenario.
The “greatness” as the event passes is what is being worked with here. It is the inverse aspect of the sublime. Usually the sublime is regarded as beyond time … but not here. Essentially I am sustaining the last moments of a doomed life, outside of time.
We are unusually privileged to experience the sublime in this way. It is usually a lost aspect through the death of the witness.
Dr Marcus Bunyan
Note: these images are printed large to reinforce the disintegration of the image, technology and human being. This painting was one of a few starting points, inspirations, for the new sequence:
Tullio Crali (Italian, 1910-2000)
Before the Parachute Opens (Prima che si apra il paracadute)
1939
52 images in the sequence
© Marcus Bunyan
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Marcus Bunyan – Imagemaker 