„Imagine a world where we prioritized space exploration. I wish this was an everday event. What an amazing endeavor.“ The quote came from the audience at the first Mars Rover landing in 2021, with hundreds of thousands commenting on the live streaming of the event on YouTube. The following year, just days after the James Webb Space Telescope transmits the first images of distant galaxies to Earth, LAO places a promotional billboard in an urban outdoor space. Passersby identify the image as one of the „new / real“ photographs from space.

The image of the planet was created using digital image production methods such as those used by space agencies. Instead of the scanned terrain of Mars, the globe is covered by the surface of a wax plate that has been specially cast for this purpose and mixed with pigments. A virtual light setup, which is oriented towards the romanticism of space images, transports the planet into dark space.