LIFE on MARS 01

LIFE on MARS 01

Nepalese hand-knotted carpet
100 knot /sq. inch - 6 Colours
100% Tibetan Wool + Chinese Silk
108" w x 180" l / 2.74 m x 4.57 m

Today, we visualize the world in new ways. From macro and drone photography to satellite imaging we see our planet and the cosmos from a totally new perspective - one that has changed our perception of ourselves. So, the landscape photographs from NASA's Mars Odyssey Mission held a unprecedented fascination.

For the design of LIFE on MARS 01, I used image maps from NASA's Mars Odyssey Mission to create a carpet about the marvellous images being recorded by the spacecraft.

From my LIFE on MARS 01 final design pattern, the weavers translated the image into 2,538,338 hand-knots to make this carpet.

LIFE on MARS 01

Was created from a topographical map of the surface of planet Mars - a landscape image of dunes and ice in the Chasma Boreale, a large Martian canyon in the north polar ice cap.

On April 7, 2001 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft left earth entering orbit around Mars on October 24, 2001. Onboard was the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) which combines a 5-wavelength visual imaging system with a 9-wavelength infrared imaging system.

Life on Mars 01 was made for the Inglewood Residence Project, Toronto by Linda Corbett for SOMA Studio.