About the moon works

I was talking to a friend—let’s call him Dave (as it is his real name)—and explaining that I had been painting the moon when he asked “which moon?”.

“Which moon?” I said, shocked. “Which moon do you think—La Luna—da moon in the sky, dummy—The Moon”.

Now, Dave is an astrophysicist and knows more about moons than I do, so his question sent me deeper into space where I found another 193* moons orbiting planets in our Solar System.

Some of those moons feature here as portraits. They were made during a studio sojourn with Anne Labovitz and are all on Yupo, a very sexy synthetic and recyclable paper. Pigments are from the Golden acrylics range. I've included a few pieces from the 'Mini-me and the moon' series.

So have a look at the moons. They are all solid bodies trapped in the orbit of something bigger—a bit like us.

   

*Some scientists dispute this figure and Dave may well be one of those, so I will reference the figure simply by saying ‘according to NASA’.

   

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The projection

The floor projection was created by videographer Andrew Brettell. 

Focusing on place, it links the ‘insignificant events’ with the phase and illumination of the moon.

   

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 The illuminated orb

The 3-panel illumination is made using acrylic paint layered with emulsion on polycarbonate. 

LED illumination by Felix van den Broek Best.