Sending Letters Home
- Year
- 2024-2025
- Artist
- Jessica Hall
- University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Major
- New Media Design
- Title
- Sending Letters Home
- Genre/Medium
- Collage/Acrylic painting on canvas; magazines, thrifted childrens’ books, science books, book board, tinfoil, aluminum wire, copper wire, popsicle sticks, acrylic paint
- Category
- physical 2D
- Current Location
- ISTB-4
- Description
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“Sending Letters Home” is a collage that represents the carefully structured, collaborative effort of the Psyche mission, as well as the emotional experience of launching this spacecraft to an unfamiliar place and awaiting its feedback. The piece evokes feelings of nostalgia, inspiration, and hope for what’s yet to come from the Psyche mission.
There are a lot of intentional details, many of them very obscured by the painting’s multitude of layers, that are built into this collage. The base of the painting was made from pages of old science books and texts about space travel, the solar system, the Earth, and other similar scientific topics. Additional texts and images of the stars were all taken from childrens’ books about space, reflecting the childlike wonder and curiosity that inspires humanity to study space. Finally, the 3-dimensional aspect of this project represents the depth and layers behind the science and exploration of space. The concept of collage itself represents the idea that space exploration isn’t just an answer to a question, but rather a resource to supplement us with the data and ideas to further a picture that we are only beginning to understand.
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Sending Letters Home
Part of Sending Letters Home