Moondust
Screen print on paper with ink and lunar regolith simulant. 6 x 16 feet. 2025.
This lunar panorama is derived from photographs taken during the last human voyage to the moon that took place in 1972. The boot prints the astronauts from that and previous missions left there are still perfectly preserved with no atmosphere to disturb them. They will be there for 10 million years or longer, quite possibly outlasting humanity. Not only is this work an image of the slowly dissipating prints left by the astronauts, it also contains ‘moon dust’ in the ink. Lunar regolith simulant, the exact compounds found on the surface of the moon, were mixed into the ink, uniting these particles with the grains of enlarged halftone dots.