Reverance

Reverence (inspired by the Jesus & Mary Chain song of the same title) is a photographic diptych of the statue of Giordano Bruno found in Mexico City’s Colonia Juarez and the plaque commemorating the visit of Haile Selassie I to Mexico found in the Plaza Etiopia subway station. I have a fascination for how the spiritual and the mystic worlds, both being something (arguably) ethereal and unscientific, have this perpetual play, even in modern society. Its still very unscientific and irrational that for example the European community, especially France, found that the only relevant reason for not allowing Turkey into the EU is their practice of a different religion. That same sort of intolerance landed Giordano Bruno in an eight-year inquisition trial, discussing if he was a saint or a demon for suggesting such modern ideas like the sun was but one of an infinite number of stars surrounded by an infinite number of other planets with intelligent life, each likely to have their own equivalent of Jesus Christ.