Photography by David Reeves

Sorry it's been a hot minute since I posted. Life travels far faster than anything else created. I've told you before that I'm doing this abduction series with photography as well as that short video (in the process of reediting!), but I haven't posted much. I had this freshman year end critique and I was told that I should show more of a narrative in the pieces that I'm doing. So I went to work the past few days and began reshooting my idea- Also I thought it would be interesting to read my artist statement I wrote for this project to see it's not just a sci-fi geek thing. Although it is totally is like a 75% sci-fi geek thing, it does have some weight behind it. I've included the first three in the series. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Also, I designed my biznaz card that I'm getting printed- mui stoked. I'll put after the abduction pics.

ABDUCTION.

I don’t have much faith in humanity. In fact, I don’t really like being a human very much at all. It’s kind of embarrassing. We are supposed to be the most intellegent species on earth but we can’t live in peace with one another. Full-grown adults fight over territory and hold grudges like it’s still the Stone Age. There’s no wonder why beings from other worlds haven’t contacted us yet. We are emotionally weak beings. We simply aren’t ready as a culture to handle such a phenomenon. I believe we would retaliate out of fear and attack that which we don’t understand instead of trying to study and learn from another culture. This act of hostility exsits now, even without the presence of extraterrestrials.

This project represents hope in that there are other more intellgent lifeforms out in the universe. It also represents the wonder, curiosity, and mystery behind that which what we do not understand, we disreguard. In this alternate reality I have created, alien lifeforms come to peak in on us from time to time to see how our culture is developing, and see if we are ready to except such an otherworldly yet possible future. Of course we’re not ready yet, however the fact that they are still investigating gives our species the hope that in time- we will come to a tranquil world peace, embracing all forms of life and culture.

-David A. Reeves

March 2011

Note: A great deal of inspiration for this project came from Athur C. Clarke’s introduction to his 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I wanted to share with you that which opened my eyes so brightly toward the future.

“ Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.

Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.

How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars.

Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality. Increasing numbers, however are asking; 'Why have such meetings not occurred already, since we ourselves are about to venture into space?'

Why not, indeed? Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question. But please remember: this is only a work of fiction.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ”