I'm absolutely crazy about NASA and space, I'm a space geek and a sci-fi geek, since I was maybe five actually not sure but I remember very well being glued to the TV on Carl Sagan's Cosmos and then watching really weird British TV show I think it was called Blake's 7. it was so corny but I believed everything about it and I was completely engrossed in that world.
The other day as I walked randomly into the New York public library I picked up a book which looked interesting and it was by a photographer who spent some time at NASA photographing astronauts training for the repair of the Hubble telescope. I couldn't finish the book with the promise that I will come back later. But that little glimpse resulted in a binge of NASA documentaries - I watched several of the documentaries, and while I don't want to get boggled down in details and links to the shows, you can basically Google best documentaries about space and documentaries about NASA, and watch them all.
In this though there was a footage from a scientist from CERN, which is not a trivial place, with really great minds and the scientist was saying that NASA is about solving problems that no one could solve. I have to also say that NASA is about creating problems that nobody else creates.
I want to be that kind of artist, where I create problems for the first time, and solve these problems for the first time.
I want to be the engineer of my own problems and the solver of these problems. I have always had the capacity to solve complex logistics on the fly and make things happen that a pretty skeptical things and usually it's a skeptics would never attempt. Some of the time it's just too many permissions involved too many unknowns if the cops would show up or the park people or something else. Assembly decided to solve these problems as they come, because given the bureaucracy some of my proposals would never see the light of day. So I have to act and deal with the consequences.