Lighting Up The Cave

In 1972 NASA and a French speleologist found themselves rewriting the history of time. They had set out together to a cave in south Texas in order to find the “natural rhythms of human life.” As with any government agency’s search for the natural, much was at stake here. Michel Siffre had been lowered 120 feet underground and had left his watch behind. He had been covered with sensors and given a tent and six months’ worth of filet mignon. And the western world’s most advanced technologies had been brought into the cave, the very landscape upon which its dominant model of representation is based.

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