The Colossus of Space Exploration. May 22, Evolving Design
This piece was created employing my “Evolving Design” process. For an explanation, please see the category “Evolving Design.” This piece continues a theme in my work that embraces space exploration. In this instance to lend it some romance and elevation I used the legend of the “Colossus of Rhodes” as a point of departure for the central figure in the work. The colossus holds a staff in his right hand and gestures a salutation with his left. Instead (as in the legend) straddling the entrance to a harbor, he is straddling the entrance to Space Exploration. The rest of the piece illustrates the Colossus lifted, rocketed into space. The top of the work celebrates some of our old and new space craft. From left to right, NASA’s Space Shuttle, SpaceX Starship and Dragon, and finally NASA’s venerable Saturn V. An outcome of the evolving design process can be elements getting drawn that I am totally unaware of. In this work there is a discovered an unbeknown figure. The figure is an alternative takeaway for who is really in charge of mankind’s futures. It is for me an ironic and humorous character. So, for the reveal, if you rotate the work 180 degrees (flip it upside down), and look above the spacecraft and on top of the large arc of the Colossus’s crown. There is a cartoon like cat man, who is clothed in shirt and pants, with both his hands and feet extending into apertures. I assure you I did not consciously draw this figure. Over time I have come to regard it as a kind of nudge at us, at mankind to not take ourselves over seriously and keep a sense of humor. I prefer you to credit what merit may be within the work, from the right side up orientation. And if you
want to switch around the orientation of the work on your wall, I will understand. In the future I intend to color the work.

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