Infraterra is a continually evolving project begging the question: once everything has been seen, what remains?
vemödalen - n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
-Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Through a delicate balance of science, art, and a sprinkling of magic for sparkle, what is unseen is exposed. What is thought to be understood proclaims that there is so much more, only beginning to be revealed.
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.” -Aldous Huxley, William Blake
The photographs presented in both Infraterra and its sister project Outside the Rainbow represent the cleansing of the doors of perception. Thanks to an array of specialized imaging equipment and an insatiable thirst for wonder and whimsy, we can harness the primal elegance of the invisible electromagnetic radiation — in short, the light that exists outside of what we know as the rainbow.
Human beings are powerful creatures, however limited by perception. Reality is perception, after all. Expand your perception. See the world, outside the rainbow.