TEAM

We recognized that there is value in the inherent mystery of the discs. We are asking future explorers to step back in time and join us in our exploration of ourselves, our world and our epoch.

I took up the wonderful challenge of touching upon all these fields by roaming in the realms of mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering, music, art, chemistry, computers and, quite literally, rocket science.

We need to define visual grammars that will remain decipherable for thousands of years. Grammars that encode the data contained in and between our fragments in a way that makes its decoding and comprehension possible.

Sanctuary is an intellectual challenge and a reflection. What kind of knowledge should we highlight? How do we organize the content in a way that is both relevant and appealing? I feel like a copyist monk in the Middle Age, transmitting knowledge in a beautiful way, helping to share our common humanity.

At the crossroads of science fiction and reality, my incredible participation in the Sanctuary project literally took me back into the dreamlike world of René Barjavel’s "The Ice People": how to respond to the daunting challenge of leaving a trace of our civilization?

In 1793 William Blake coined a powerful aphorism: “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” The Sanctuary time capsule is a pioneering collaboration between science and art designed to convey examples of human genius on the lunar surface and preserve a fragment of our spirit for the ages. While our trajectory is located in space -across the 238,900- mile gulf between the Earth and Moon, it is also about deep cosmic time. Hoping for eternity’s devotion, Sanctuary is being readied for flight.