Elaine Duigenan and Leland Melvin at Klompching Gallery
June 21st, 2010
In 2008, a chance encounter between Elaine Duigenan and Leland Melvin sparked a very special friendship. The Micro Mundi photographs became part of a wider connection spanning art and science. On November 16th, 2009, Leland Melvin was launched into space on the Shuttle Atlantis, accompanied by one of Duigenan’s photographs from Micro Mundi.
“There are few times in a person’s life when a seeemingly chance encounter generates a cosmic grand connection. Elaine Duigenan’s images in Micro Mundi show how the random exceedingly slow wanderings of a mullusk feeding can depict our planet’s network of paths, roads, and rivers as we view them exceedingly fast from the portal of space, circling our globe every 90 minutes. The relationship found between the micro and macro worlds can help us better understand the delicate fragility of our planet and unite the people of our civilization. By the way, there are no chance encounters”.—Leland Melvin, Astronaut.
Klompching Gallery
111 Front street,suite 206 Brooklyn, NY 11201
June 17—August 6, 2010
