No Asteroid imagines an alternative history. Sixty-five million years ago, a single event—the asteroid impact—changed the course of life on Earth. Without it, the dinosaurs might never have disappeared. Evolution would have followed a different path, perhaps leading to an intelligent dinosaur civilization instead of humanity.
The photograph is not about prehistoric life as science, but about contingency. It asks how much of our existence depends on chance. A single moment, lasting only seconds, redirected millions of years of evolution and ultimately shaped the world we know today.
By replacing humans with imagined descendants of dinosaurs, No Asteroid reflects on the fragility of history. It suggests that our own presence on Earth may not be the inevitable outcome of evolution, but the consequence of one unpredictable event.
"No Astroid", 2024, C-Print, 122 x 155 cm, Edition of 6