INSTRUCTIONS TO / FROM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
The relational notion of position is familiar to all of us, we tend to define our position based on landmarks, buildings, walls, coordinates, etc… proceeding this way you can give your position relative to everything else.
The Data painted onto these canvases shows two ways to define the earth´s position in the universe, based on a map designed by Frank Drake in 1972. In that map, Drake showed the position of the earth relative to 14 pulsars, the map was included in the Voyager 1 , 2 and Pioneer 10-11 spacecrafts, these spacecrafts were sent into outer space during that decade with the intention that some form of life finds it. These paintings identify the 14 pulsars in two different ways, one shows the binary period of each pulsar (which would be the way someone watching from somewhere in the universe could identify the pulsars) , and on the other one the galactic and celestial coordinates, which both have our solar system as the center.
Pulsars are like clocks, they 'pulse' at a constant rhythm for a long time, so they can be used as navigational references in our universe.
These paintings aim to give us a reference which we can use to show (imagine) our location outside our solar system or even our galaxy.
"Here we are"