In the beginning...

YEAR: 2021
MEDIUM: Publication, 15 x 11cm, 80pp
FUNDING: KOP Breda, Stedelijk Museum Breda

In the beginning... is a written story from which the other works in this series stem from.

A fairytale reimagining of the crash-landing of tardigrades on the moon which results in colossal, moon-sized moss piglets and a moon blanketed in a green carpet of mossy forests. It exists as a single-edition publication.

Synopsis
Inviting you to fantasise about the future lives of the tardigrades living on the moon, In the beginning... spins a fairytale of galactic proportions where reverence is afforded to the beings most adept to avoid extinction and tardigrades become Chthonic goddesses. In this tale, the lunar tardigrades are also joined on the moon by their favourite vegetal habitat - moss. The spacecraft crash has unleashed the moon’s biggest secret and burst a spring of water deep underground. Thriving in the moon’s magical water, the moss and the moss piglets multiply until the moon becomes covered in moss and the moss piglets grow into one colossal, moon-sized being, soon to be known by the humans on Earth as ‘The Great Cosmic Other’. As the loss of moonlight sends the planet into chaos, a deeply entwined history between tardigrades and the origins of life is quite literally unearthed. Through an attempt to solidify their status in the world for billions of years with their intergalatic archive, humanity (or more pertinently, one human) had inadvertently triggered their own extinction.