Moon Hands

Moon Hands is a series of works on paper, canvas and installations inspired by NASA’s Artemis program, the first launch of the NASA Space Launch System rocket and celebrates us going to the Moon once again.

My blueprint for life came from the science fiction books I had read throughout my childhood and as a young adult, the novels of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clark. I wanted an epic life with adventures, possibly in space. My first dream was to become an astronaut. I became a space fanatic and have been a fan of NASA my entire adulthood.

I sent seven small Moon Hands to engineers and officials at NASA.

And received a thank you letter from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Moon Hands

A series of palm sized Moon Hands. The Moon Hands are two-sided hand painting on canvas, one side is orange-red and spells ‘NASA’ and the other side is blue and spells ‘Artemis’.

Giant Moon Hand Installations in Central Park

On Saturday, September 3rd 2022, I took the Moon Hand to Central Park in expectation of the SLS ‘Moon Rocket’ launch. I hung the Moon Hand over bridges, asked people to hold it over railings for photo ops and waived it off the big rock. In this way I express my obsessive love of NASA and everything Space.

The Giant Moon Hand on a rock in Central Park.

Painting the Giant Moon Hand in my studio