Bus Stop on the Moon
We believe that humanity will one day expand beyond Earth. Whether this happens in one hundred years or one thousand is not the point. The question that interests us is far more immediate:
What would we choose to carry from our first planet to the next?
Not only objects.
Not only technology.
But memories, values, stories, languages, knowledge, rituals, and ways of caring for one another.
We are a family travelling through the world to build a growing archive for an imagined future: a time capsule for a civilisation that may one day call more than one planet home.
In our imaginary space passports it says:
The Dramé Family
Home Planet: Venus
Of course, Venus is uninhabitable. With temperatures of around 460°C and an atmosphere dense enough to crush a human body, no human could survive there. We chose Venus because our passports are not scientific documents. They are invitations to imagine another future.
What changes when we change planets?
Our height would stay the same, but our weight would not. On the Moon we would weigh only one sixth of what we weigh on Earth. On a larger planet we would feel heavier. Gravity changes the body. Migration changes the mind. Every new world has the potential to change what it means to be human.
What would we pack?
Probably not much.
Perhaps our favourite water bottle with its built-in filter. But would it work elsewhere? Only if water on another planet shared Earth's chemistry. The question reminds us that even the simplest objects we take for granted are deeply connected to the planet that created them.
A tent might be essential.
A glamping tent, preferably.
Even at the edge of the universe, humans will probably still look for beauty, comfort and a place to call home.
As we travel, we invite people whose perspectives shape our understanding of the future: firefighters confronting climate change, astronauts and space scientists exploring humanity's next frontier, members of the Soninke community carrying generations of cultural knowledge, and artist mothers imagining how creativity and care might survive beyond Earth.
Each encounter becomes part of our expanding archive.
Each city contributes another fragment to a future that does not yet exist.
Bus Stop on the Moon is an evolving artistic research project about planetary migration, cultural memory, ecology, family, and imagination.
It asks a simple question with no final answer:
If humanity ever leaves Earth, what deserves to travel with us?