Cosmic Silence

Video Project

Valeria Castillo

 MAIAD 26

Whenever we leave the planet, I imagine it will happen so briefly that we’ll slip out the door with the house still a bit messy, the kind of mess you leave when you’re sure you will return.

Whether we vanished into extinction or drifted off to conquer another rock in the universe, these are the scenes of a future entity encountering the remnants of our passing through earth: 

A compressed layer of matter holding the ghosts of the anthropocene, just another fraction of a second in the long chronology of the universe.

Prompt: post-natural and post-anthropogenic symbiotic archeology catalog of tech materials just found geologies embedded with natural geographies, matters poetic scientific- documentary photography,, looks like recovered archive notes and institutional records, distant observational viewpoint, dramatic angles, subtle analog grain, soft focus on the edges, light noise and compression artifacts, faint scan lines, analog photo then scanned again, paper and toner texture, tiny dust, scratches and specks on the surface muted technical color palette:

washed-out blacks, soft off- whites, blues, greens, earth tones, contrast, matte finish, nothing glossy, inspired by technical language as poetry: the city and the territory as measured systems, data turned into atmosphere, bureaucratic graphics that feel emotional, minimal but precise typography integrated into the image mood cold but quietly emotional, distant yet intimate, images that feel found, recorded, archived, not staged, the silent beauty of neutral documentation high resolution but with intentional imperfection, subtle blur, no HDR, no cinematic lighting –chaos 30 –ar 4:3 –raw — profile agw1io9 –stylize 0

AI Models used: Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, & Kling 2.5. Chat GPT & Claude