In the age when people will live under Martian ground our culture and senses will need to evolve to recognize each other…

Dream it.

Dreaming of space exploration by humans and colonization of other stellar bodies, I realized that one of the major plans to protect ourselves from radiation on one of the easier colonization targets — Mars, we need to succumb to living underground. Of course, we can create a lot of artificial illumination on the surroundings, but I was wondering, what it would be like if we ourselves would have to luminesce to see each other and our environment?

Study it.

Rayonism is a style of abstract art that was developed in Russia in 1911. The Rayonists sought an art that floated beyond abstraction, outside time and space, outside the object. They derived the name from the use of dynamic rays of contrasting color, representing lines of reflected light — crossing of reflected rays from various objects. Light — is the core of the perception, and not the object that reflects it.

Glow it.

I obtained liters of luminescent paint that glows extremely bright when there are high energy photons that may produce radiative damage, such as X-ray and UV range rays. I then painted bodies of myself and my friends and we explored how it would be like to perceive good and bad, beautiful and arrogant within such paradigm. Changing the body and visual language of our communication brought important insights into what is considered what in such inverted reality.