They say our eyes can’t be trusted but only refer to empirical approaches. They make extensive use of photomontages and videos as propaganda weapons while rejecting globe images as fabrications of a "round Earth conspiracy" orchestrated by NASA and other government agencies. Walking around on the planet's surface, it looks and feels flat, so Flat-Earthers believe what they see to discern the true nature of the world around them and, in other ways, see only what they believe. GPS devices are rigged to make airplane pilots think they are flying in straight lines around a sphere when they are actually flying in circles.Įarth not a globe is a project that focuses on the Flat-Earthers, a community of people who believe the earth to be flat. Like spotlights, these celestial spheres illuminate different portions of the planet in a 24-hour cycle and allow us to see the firmament during the night. Sun and moon are spheres that move in circles above the plane of the Earth. Earth is a disc under a glass dome and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by a 150-foot-tall circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is at the center of the earth. The continents float on an endless ocean which somehow has a layer of rock and fire underneath it. The Ravestijn Gallery opens the new year with a solo exhibition Earth not a globe by Philippe Braquenier, nominated for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020.
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