'The Apollo Prophecy' depicts, in one extravagantly long duotone panorama, an imagined expedition of 1960s American astronauts. Landing on the moon, they discover a lost mission of Edwardian-era astronauts who greet them as long-awaited gods. By presenting wildly inventive staged photographs as evidence of events that never happened, 'The Apollo Prophecies' playfully questions to concept of historical truth. Part Jules Verne, part Stanley Kubrick, the panoramic moonscape literally unfolds in multiple episodes that intermingle artifacts from the fearless era of early-20th-century exploration with space age gadgetry.
Using digital photography, the artists combine real-life locations, miniature models, and full-scale props of their own devising to produce a dramatic narrative played out by space-suit-clad astronauts (and similarly clad monkeys and elephants). This is an Apollo lunar mission both dreamlike yet oddly familiar -- and utterly convincing.
Included in this ingenious package is a 12-page booklet with a mind-bending narrative illustrated with four-colour mixed-media drawings.
Limited Edition
In addition tot he trade edition, the limited edition (250, signed by the artists_ features a lenticular image created by the artists especially for this edition. Viewed from one angle, it reveals an astronaut from the Edwardian era, from the other angle it shows an astronaut from the 1960s. Accompanying the panorama is a 20-minute DVD documenting the lunar mission. Everything is presented in a space age plastic case.
