Brianna Lowe

Globes is a video series that reimagines planetary landscapes through digital abstraction and spatial reconfiguration. Drawing from NASA’s online image bank, the work appropriates factual imagery of Earth and space, recontextualizing these scientific documents by mapping them onto animated, rotating forms resembling tectonic plates or fragmented planetary bodies.

Through this process, Globes disrupts the authority of the original images—shifting their meaning from empirical record to aesthetic speculation. By manipulating scale and form, the series invites a play between the micro and the macro, where planetary terrain becomes both monumental and intimate, scientific and surreal.

Created using Cinema 4D, a 3D modeling and animation software, the imagery is mapped onto geometric forms and set into motion. The final compositions are assembled in Adobe After Effects, layering animation and visual effects to create immersive, looping sequences that question our perception of landscape, data, and digital representation.

At its core, Globes reflects on how mediated images of the Earth—especially those intended to document reality—can be deconstructed to explore alternate modes of understanding space, scale, and our evolving relationship to planetary imagery.