Starmaker, 2005 The Morisons use cultural shorthand to survey the array of human endeavours and their impact on the natural world. Starmaker (2005), for example, entangles the realms of natural and cultural history and science fiction so that we can appreciate the oddities of both. A medium format slideshow of images - including dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History, rose farming in Ecuador, Dutch tulip fields, container ships and the coastline of the UK - is accompanied by field recordings and electronic sounds sampled from sci-fi movies. The Morison's brief was to create a pictorial survey of Earth as if made by an alien, to consider how the familiar might be understood by an outsider and thereby re-evaluate cultural clichés. A version of the soundtrack to Starmaker can be listened to online by clicking here (for help about how to listen click here).
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