This series of photographs was part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, nuclear weapons testing done in America in 1953. Only aprox 2.6seconds has passed from start to finish of the sequence.
What struck me about the image was that the house looked like a model, perhaps because of the lighting, this plays with the perception of scale.
I chose 'Explosion' because it immediate visual impact and the associations with fear and total destruction. This is true because explosions are BIG so have big impact, otherwise they would be far less controversial. I want to play on the idea of scale by layering real footage with explosions I've made using household components-kitchen chemistry. Although I'm doing this to draw attention between big and small in looking up recipes there have been some threatening suggestions. Terrorists fashioning bombs from fertiliser etc. shows that small and lowly reactants still leave a major threat.
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