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Come Celebrate Our World At The Terra Exhibition

Chris Clasen Editor

revivalgatherings.com

Visit St. Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill and experience the most extraordinary replica of Planet Earth ever created! Featuring NASA satellite imagery, this huge illuminated, revolving globe - affectionately named TERRA - is now on display and FREE to the public. Forward this email to your friends & family!

EXHIBITION HOURS

November 9-19th

Weekdays Noon-6pm & Special Evenings

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How a Planet Was Born

When TERRA artist Eric J Morris was 17, he saw Buckminster Fuller give three riveting lectures at Seattle’s UW. To the young Morris, it felt as though Bucky drew one giant circle around everything in the universe and showed it to be a single, coherent system.

Afterward, Morris thanked him and asked, with a young man’s naivety, what he should do with his life. Bucky encouraged him to think comprehensively, to look for what needs to be done, and then to work out how to do it best. “After all,” Bucky said, “that’s how the universe designs itself.”

Around this same time, the astronauts of Apollo 8 had just orbited the Moon, and saw something no human ever had: Planet Earth rising over the lunar horizon. The iconic photograph Earthrise showed our fragile blue planet as a whole, floating in the darkness of space. This shift in perspective has since fostered a collective recognition of our oneness.

A great photograph can invite this kind of paradigm shift. A great object may do it even better… Young Eric had a novel idea, and for the past 4 decades has created millions of small and large Earths: for schoolchildren, for the Olympic Games, for Universities, even for NASA!

But he never created one as a standalone art installation… Until now.