This striking fine art photography diptych serves as an intellectually grounding visual testimony capturing the historic social upheaval of 2020. Formed by meticulously gathering shards of colored street glass and urban waste during COVID-19 quarantine and civil rights protests in Atlanta, the imagery transforms scattered raw garbage into complex, floating planetary bodies. The absolute dark backdrop isolates the spheres, emphasizing the chaotic undercurrents of the assembled matter. By pairing environmental breakdown with a deep exploration of human behavior and feeling, Gerliczki goes beyond literal documentation to reconstruct a fractured worldview, delivering a museum-grade archival centerpiece custom-tailored for selective contemporary collections.
 
In series entitled “Broken Planet,” Zoltan depicts a broken planet alongside 13 other “planets” based on the most common human feelings or behaviors, such as happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation, fear, loneliness, jealousy, disgust, trust, greed, joy, racism, and shame.
In these images, the artist works with various fragments of colored glass and other debris that he collected from the streets near his home in Atlanta during the COVID-19 quarantine and political protests. Zoltan assembles these pieces in his studio and re-photographs them to symbolize the current crisis of political and environmental problems. At this moment, the most pressing issues of our time concern ourselves and the future of our culture and our planet. In a sense, the artist takes the pieces and puts them back together to reconstruct a fragmented world.
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about it.” -Albert Einstein
 
Add this unique diptych of conceptual photography with great aesthetic power to your collection. Archival pigment print from The Broken Planet series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.