This is the “Orbital”, a digital video animation by the Slovak artist Svätopluk Mikyta at the Light Art Museum in Budapest, Hungary.
The animation is based on a series of ten different glass spheres, which are also exhibited in the museum. The spheres are inspired by the famous photograph of the Earth taken by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972, known as The Blue Marble.
The photograph showed the Earth as a fragile and vulnerable planet, isolated in the vastness of space. It became a symbol of environmentalism and the green movement in the 1970s.
The animation recreates this image, but with a twist. The spheres are constantly rotating and changing, creating a hypnotic and mesmerising effect. The viewer is left wondering whether the animation is showing the Earth and its atmosphere, or another planet in the universe, threatened by mankind.
The animation is a reflection on the beauty and the mystery of the Earth, as well as the responsibility and the danger of human intervention.
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