"Exoplanets" is a game I created with p5js, a processing language based in java script. This piece is an interactive, educational program that is both a tool and a game. I created this program to open the viewers mind to the vast and diverse nature of the universe. This piece will awaken the viewer to how truly unique our planet is and how improbable and incredible it is that life exists on this small rocky planet. My work seeks to contextualize our world by presenting alternatives to the reality we perceive on a day to day basis. The work is highly influenced by surrealism and collage artists like Jerry Uelsmann who are able to give a completely different view of our world through surreal mashups of reality. That type of work, like this piece, brings the viewer out of their day to day life and worldview into something bigger and inspires change through presenting alternative realities. In this way, despite the exoplanets and facts about them being real, they can be thought of as a surreal or alternate reality to our life on Earth. By gaining this new understanding of our place in the universe, we are one step closer to having a more humbled and long term perspective of this world and our own lives.
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