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Mars 2
1998
- 28 x 38"
Acrylic & text on paper & canvas
Courtesy of the AMY STUCKEY COLLECTION
In the late 90s I was talking to my friend Jim's dad, who worked
directly with NASA as a Meteorologist, through the University
of Washington.
Years
before, I remember looking at photographs, eight feet wide,
taken by the Viking Lander, which landed ON Mars in 1975. These
were part of their living room, and as a visiting kid, I didnšt
realize how rare this was.
And so twenty years later he gave me a technical paper he'd
written on theory of the peculiar atmospheric double spike in
a Martian Day. Two sentences in, I was lost, but fascinated.
Walking
up the path towards my house, my eyes fell upon some ripe tomatoes
that I had planted in my garden. I stopped and gazed at them
for a minute. And the Mars series started.
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