Across Psyche
Therese Manesia Cook
November 22nd, 2024
Major: Physics
Genre/Medium: Digital (Procreate, Photoshop, Heavypaint)
About the work:
The piece “Across Psyche” is a set of three wide landscape illustrations of the asteroid Psyche’s surface, imagined from a perspective showing an expansive display of features. Overlayed above the illustrations are three sweeping arcs, which, upon closer inspection, trail behind the very tiny orbiting spacecraft Psyche. The inspiration for this piece was to convey the size of the asteroid. It is meant to give the viewer a sense of scale: the asteroid Psyche is not just any space rock–in comparison to the spacecraft it’s very big, measuring over a hundred miles across! And, it is bound to have interesting topology and features across this expanse of surface. As no one has seen the surface of the asteroid Psyche yet, the artist hoped to use dynamic shapes and curves as a way of expressing the excitement of the mission, which will discover many new sights across the asteroid. Read more…
