Terra Spatium Navis is another painting in which I try to depict a broad idea—the idea that a future spaceship might not look like what we are accustomed to, or that space travel might involve an object other than a spaceship, and, that space travel might take place between the fabric of space and time instead of through it. Some of you might be familiar with our 2017 visitor, Oumuamua—the first interstellar object detected passing through our solar system. It grabbed my attention. What was it? Asteroid? Former comet? Extraterrestrial spy? Reddish in color, cigar-shaped and with a confounding constant rate of acceleration, it’s all conjecture, really, as scientists couldn’t observe it long or well enough. And now it’s gone. But that visit, as well as these other ideas, continue to orbit in and out of a solar system within my imagination.
Terra Form
