Anniversary
Hoang Nguyen
November 25th, 2024
Major: Astronomy
Genre/Medium: digital illustration
About the work:
Remembering the affection that many people had for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, I wondered if, by depicting Psyche in a humanoid form, I could evoke sympathy for a spacecraft. It happened to be near the first anniversary of Psyche’s launch, so in my piece I’ve thrown a somewhat lonely little birthday party for the beloved child.
It’s my instinct to lean Baroque, but I felt it was necessary for the scene to be set solidly in the 21st century. These sort of conflicting ideas were hard to resolve, and I think my attempt to do that is what pushed the image in the direction of, say, a still life in a book of hide-and-seek puzzles you might’ve had as a kid, or maybe a secret room in a dream you’ve had and since forgotten. Read more…
