Audrey Martin
Global Damages

This series of numbered postcards portrays simulations of natural disasters caused by the impact of a meteorite with the Earth.
Anybody can modify the scientific data (weight, mass, speed, angle of meteorite) on the site www.purdue.edu/impactearth to create the catastrophic collision of their choice. Thanks to the British scientists who created this site, man can be the instigator of his own end and can master it in front of his computer.

In an almost ironic gesture, we are given an unconditional (virtual) power, allowing us to control the universe – literally playing God. The destruction of the earth becomes a game, a banal act. Behind this simulation, science offers us concrete results, as if this kind of catastrophe is the norm.