955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94

Gravitational View #02

Yigal Pardo

Check it out

Wo itefaq se rasty mai mil jaye kahi,

Bs isi shoq ne hume Awara bana dia hai.

~JAUN ELIYA

"The feeling that she was not alone took possession of her." The whisper on the stair. 1924. Frontispiece.

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Álvaro Siza

Boa Nova Tea House Leça da Palmeira, Portugal 1956

Woh zehar deta toh duniya ki nazroon mein aa jata, Faraz

So usne yun kiya ki waqt pe dawa nahin di

- Ahmed Faraz

While most folks were sitting down for supper, NASA tried to move a space mountain.

Beyond sight for backyard stargazers, a spacecraft the size of a vending machine self-destructed by ramming into a harmless asteroid shortly after 7 p.m. ET Monday, September 26th. The high-speed crash was part of the U.S. space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.

The moment of impact marked the first time in history humans have attempted to alter the path of an asteroid, a flying chunk of rubble left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of the time, these ancient rocks pose no danger to Earth, including Dimorphos, the one NASA just used for target practice. But at least three have caused mass extinctions, the most infamous of which wiped out the dinosaurs.

Stegosaurus didn't have NASA.

"We are changing the motion of a natural celestial body in space. Humanity has never done that before," said Tom Statler, program scientist. "This was the substance of fiction books and really corny episodes of Star Trek from when I was a kid, and now it's real."

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تم مجھے روزقیامت ملنا،

تم سے میرا حساب باکی ہے۔

Tum mujhe roz-e-qayamat milna,

Tum se mera hisab baaki hai.

~Lines

Roden Crater | Painted Desert, Arizona

“My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.” - James Turrell