A digital version of my paintings ‘The Liberation of Eve’and ‘Quietude’ (above) are heading to the moon!!
Dr. Samuel Peralta (Physicist, Canada), with the help Didi Menendez (Art Publisher PoetsArtists, USA), organised this amazing opportunity for a number of artists and I am so lucky and incredibly grateful, to be included. Both paintings were part of exhibitions organised by Didi in 2020 and 2021.
A time capsule containing several digital art publications is set to be aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander. The launch is scheduled for July 2021 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since the Apollo program 50 years ago. It is also the first commercial launch to the moon IN HISTORY.
Physicist, entrepreneur, and storyteller, Samuel Peralta's fiction has hit the major bestseller lists and his poetry has won awards worldwide. Acclaimed for curating popular short story anthologies and art exhibits, he is also a songwriter and producer of prize-winning independent films.
‘Artists on the Moon’ or Annex 9 is a project carrying the works of around 800 creative artists to the Moon. Annex 9 collection includes art magazines, catalogues for art exhibitions, anthologies of art and poetry, essays, short stories, scientific documents, and biography.
Is Annex 9 the first art on the Moon? No, but it is the first time anyone has ever launched the work of women artists to the Moon and Australian artists.
You can see a full list of the artists included in the launch here:
For your interest the other two major items of art on the Moon:
(a) "Moon Museum" is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters by one-half inch, containing artworks by six prominent artists from the late 1960s. The artists with works in the "museum" are Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol. This wafer was covertly attached to a leg of the Lunar Module Intrepid, and subsequently left on the Moon during Apollo 12. Moon Museum is considered the first Space Art object.
(b) "Fallen Astronaut" is a 3.5-inch aluminum sculpture created by Paul Van Hoeydonck. It is a small stylized figure, meant to depict an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was commissioned and placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 at Hadley Rille on August 1, 1971, next to a plaque listing the 14 men known who died.
