This is an image of the Paniri volcano (Atacama Desert) printed in Ascii mode. It honours the Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes or TataMallkus are a bridge between heaven and earth.
The Ascii (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) method of image construction allows for replacing a pixel in the image with a text character, the text being a greyscale visual equivalent. The characters used to form this image were determined according to the phrase “Ay la hoy’ri peni cachii li cielo”, which in the Kunza language means “So on earth as in heaven”, a biblical phrase belonging to the “Our Father” prayer, introduced from Catholicism into the Atacameño culture during the Spanish colonisation.
“Ay la hoy’ri peni cachii li cielo”, recreates the image of the Paniri volcano, presented in Ascii mode, which, printed on a large format canvas, honours the Atacameño culture’s belief that volcanoes or TataMallkus are a linking bridge between heaven and earth. It should be noted that the Ascii (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) method of image construction allows a pixel of the image to be replaced by a text character, the text being a visual equivalent in greyscale. The characters used to form this image were determined according to the phrase “Ay la hoy’ri peni cachii li cielo”, which in the Kunza language means “So on earth as in heaven”, a biblical phrase belonging to the “Our Father” prayer, introduced from Catholicism into the Atacameño culture during the Spanish colonisation.
2022
ASCII image, sublimation print on Deko Texx
475 x 320 cm.
View of the exhibition “Sky is falling asleep on the desk of the time”, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria.
