Tomas Chadim

Diptych, 2023

Milky Way (Triptych, 2023)

Q: What is the one fact about the universe that blows your mind the most?

One is just the size and scale of it. I mean, in the piece of the universe we can see there are something like roughly 2 trillion galaxies. We haven‘t counted them all but that’s an estimate based on surveys of the local universe. Two trillion, 2,000 billion galaxies. And each galaxy is, let’s say, around the size of the Milky Way. Some are bigger, some are smaller, but the Milky Way has 400 billion stars in it. It takes light over 100,000 years to cross a galaxy. And there are 2 trillion of them in the piece of the universe we can see. And we are very sure that that piece that we can see is a small bit of what may be an infinite universe beyond; we don’t know actually.

And I always say, you know, don’t get worried about that, because nobody can picture it. It is impossible to visualize the scale of the universe.

Astrophysicist Brian Cox

Google Earth and the biggest logistics hubs on the Globe. Tokio, Los Angeles, Osaká, Hamburg, Antwerpen and other. These places hide some kind of beauty, not visible at first look. The photographs patiently discovered by the author are rather paintings. Though, if you look closer, you can explore thousands of details like trucks, tools, materials, shipping containers etc. The only missing element is a human being. There is nobody in the photographs.

... and finally... I've probably found the real center of the Zone... its very core! So quiet, so peaceful!

Time slowed down here, the space was being divided, I could feel a concentration of energy here – energy either collapsed into the gateways, or vice versa pulsed out. The places were really weird.

The Planet as it existed here a hundred thousand years ago.  It was covered by deep dense forest, and to be precise, right here in the central part of one continent. Forests were waiting for the very first human beings – for immigrants from another continent of the same Planet. Those animals – human beings – came and will one day disappear again. They leave only scars in the landscape, which are gradually healed by the forest itself. Once again, it is returning to being an unnamed Planet.

We're a bit like insects. We are ubiquitous. And sometimes there comes an intense swarming = a concentration of our power. However, unlike insect communities, the swarming of our community misses one single goal, a clear intent and also unified vision. Simply put, we miss swarm intelligence.

They are everywhere. They are sticking out all over the Czech landscape. Antennas, transmission towers, water reservoirs, gas storage tanks, floodlights, billboards, concrete plants, cooling towers, cranes and other technological structures. Take a walk through the countryside. It's like you almost can't find a single place unoccupied by at least one of these structures. We are by nature aggressive beings, extensively violating the landscape. Yet I find all these structures profoundly fascinating, and highly attractive, for we are not only invasive beings, but also creative.