O mais interessante deste impressionante trabalho é que tudo foi feito com base em material verdadeiramente recolhido do nosso sistema solar. Wernquist recorreu à NASA para aceder a documentação e imagens e assim conseguir recriar, do modo mais próximo possível, os vários ambientes que podemos ver no filme. Claro que o fez acrescentando, a camada que torna o trabalho verdadeiramente impressivo, a presença do ser humano. Mais informação sobre cada uma das montagens, pode ser acedida na Galeria de Imagens, clicando em cada uma.
"Wanderers" (2014) de Erik Wernquist
"For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species' might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: "I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..."
Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.
Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting."
Excerto de 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space' (1994) lido por Carl Sagan
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