Where We ve Been, Where We re Going, Why?
Where Weve Been, Where Were Going, Why? is a uniquely bound publication that brings together two sets of archivesone personal, one publicthrough a do-si-do inspired, double-loop bind, allowing each artist book to exist separately, while still bound together as one. Boardman and Mays employ the photographic archive as a device to draw connections between seemingly disparate storylines an American road trip, the return of Halleys Comet, and the Teacher in Space program, which invited the first civilian to leave the Earth.
On January 28th, 1986, these storylines unexpectedly coalesce at the launch of the ill-fated Challenger Mission STS-51-L, giving way to a set of parallel histories. In piecing together various archives an album of family snapshots, glass plate negatives of the comet, photographs of the astronauts in training, video stills from the Lost Lessons, and various excerpts of official NASA documentation Boardman and Mays explore the personal and cultural effects of bearing witness.
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