Moon-Bound Book

31 Jan

Moon Bound Book is an international art project led by the Moon Gallery Foundation, collecting text and image works from 48 artists, writers and creatives across the world into a single book designed to land on the Moon’s south pole in 2025. The project asks:
“How does the Moon see the Earth?”

My contribution, Coccolithophores Call, combines a poetic text with a microscopic image of coccolithophores collected from a stream and manipulated to resemble a distant planet. The work invites the Moon to “look back” at Earth through one of its smallest planetary-scale systems, connecting marine micro-life, climate cycles and cosmic perspective. Coccolithophores are microscopic marine organisms that form part of the global carbon cycle, making them an ideal planetary metaphor within conversations about climate, ecology and futures.

Moon Bound explores the role of art and poetics in space exploration, raising wider questions about how we imagine planetary futures, the value of artists in space policy, and the status of cultural artefacts beyond Earth. It is currently touring Europe before making its way to the moon.