Sublunary 15

The Earthbound Echo of an Unseen Invasion

Belonging to This World as Contrasted with a better or more spiritual one.

1. Introduction — What Sublunary Represents

Sublunary explores the imagined presence of an alien civilisation quietly materialising within our landscapes.
Rather than arriving with spectacle, they appear as ordinary objects that almost blend into the night — almost.
This small, deliberate misalignment is where the subtle humour of the project lives, embedded visually rather than explicitly.

2. The Concept — A World Slightly Out of Place

The narrative imagines a race far beyond human comprehension, existing in a dimension running parallel to ours.
Their attempts to enter the Earth’s realm result in objects that belong just enough to be overlooked, yet remain visually unsettled.
The tension between the familiar and the slightly “off” becomes the core language of the series.

3. The Subtle Humour — Hidden in the Visuals

The project’s humour is intentionally understated.
It sits in the small visual contradictions: shapes that mimic everyday objects, lighting that suggests intelligence, and forms that occupy the landscape with an odd, misplaced confidence.
Nothing is exaggerated — the humour arrives only when the viewer notices something isn’t quite where or what it should be.

4. Technical Process — Capturing the Unseen

Each image is created in a single 13–15 second long exposure, aligned with the Earth’s rotation.
This technique reveals each manifestation as a slight disruption of reality: a presence that hasn’t fully resolved itself into our dimension.
The method supports the narrative — subtle, slow, and quietly intrusive.

5. The Moon Mythology — A Constructed Sentinel

Within the world of Sublunary, the moon is imagined not as a natural satellite but as a constructed façade — a fixed, silent staging ground for the beings’ emergence.
Its dark, unseen side symbolises the parts of reality that remain hidden from human awareness.

6. Themes — Belonging, Perception, and the Familiar Unfamiliar

At its core, Sublunary examines how easily we accept our surroundings without question.
The work asks viewers to reconsider the everyday and to acknowledge that even subtle distortions may reveal something far larger than what we’re conditioned to see.

Institutional Collection & Availability

The first five prints of Sublunary are held in the collection of De Montfort University.
Prints from the series are available individually and as a complete set (POA).

This short film (below) has been created by me, complete with designed soundscape and voice over, using the still images from the project Sublunary.