Moon Hand - detail, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.
Why NASA?
I have a blind obsessive love for NASA, I can probably turn on them if they start secretly assassinating small children.
If I think of something cool, if I can think of the best thing in the world that's out there it's probably something that NASA does.
I love art and of course my entire being is devoted to it. But the first artist that had to leave that print on the wall of a cave, first had to figure out how to do it, they probably made a little tool to blow red ochre onto the wall to leave their hand print.
So the first artist was an engineer too and some of the great artists were also engineers like Leonardo and Michelangelo, and I too come from engineering background, architecture.
I come from a family of engineers and tinkerers. But also artists and architects.
To me form has a purpose, and meaning.
I guess I love the beauty of pure awesome engineering and get excited about the robots on Mars.
The funny thing is that one of my first toys when I was little was Lunohod, a remote controlled toy Russian lunar rover that had a really cool way of moving and was blinking and making a lot of noise.
If I remain brave when I get old I imagine I want to die on Mars. Have the red planet reflected in my dying pupils. The ultimate adventure.
But don't be too scared of that morbid paragraph because after all we're all trembling fields and all material things are just a shadow. Like Plato's Shadow on the wall.
Anyway NASA gets themselves into problems that no one else has and solves problems that no one can.
The kind of products and the kind of schemes NASA solves are just, impossible.
Moon Hand in Central Park, September 3rd, 2022
Why Hand?
Because from cave paintings to the famous Michelangelo fresco the hand is a symbol of our civilization. What marks humankind as special is that we are creative. We built our civilization by hand, including these impossible looking skinny skyscrapers in New York City.
Moon Hand, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.
Moon Hand, 5 x 15 feet, acrylic on paper, 2022.