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Launch

Launch Date:

8 April 2022

Launch Mission:

Axiom Mission 1

Launch Operator:

SpaceX

Rocket:

Falcon 9

Launch Vehicle:

Crew Dragon Endeavour

Launch Location:

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

2022-037A

COSPAR id:

In Space

Host:

International Space Station

Type:

Space Station

Operator:

Multinational

Location:

Low Earth Orbit, Non-Polar Inclined

COSPAR id:

1998-067A

Return

Return Date:

Return Mission:

Return Vehicle:

Landing Location:

COSPAR id:

Updated:

8/7/24

status:

Ended

Mission Profile

Partners:

Izhar Cohen

Illustrator

Artist(s)

Collection

This artwork is part of a collection:

Rakia Art Project

2022

A unique travelogue in which Eytan is going to share his thoughts with the artist, and which will form the basis for illustrations, which will be collected inside it.

Eytan’s mission is taking him to a place whose designation is scientific, rational, a laboratory in search of answers to questions. Man’s presence beyond Earth fascinates me. It raises questions about our very existence - ideas and sentiments which transcend the boundaries of space and time. In my work I create idea-based visual images. I feed off text and intuitively I respond in an illustrated image. This is how I interpret reality for myself, the way I mediate it to the world. I choose to focus on the dimensions of consciousness and the dimensions which are non-conscious. During the preparatory stages for the flight, during the flight itself, while in space and en route back to Earth. Eytan and I will be maintaining a dialog, which is going to be based on questions I will be posing to him. His answers will form the inspiration for my illustrated responses. Following that I will be processing them into illustrated and painted images, which I will be beaming back to Eytan in real-time. This exchange of letters and drawings will be taking place in that place between where Eytan will be hovering on the Station in space, and my home in Tel Aviv. This exchange of space letters is intended to create a visual documentation of his journey from Earth to space and back.
Dimensions:

n/a

Medium:

painted images, radio transmission

Genre:

Correspondence - A Visual Journey Diary

Izhar Cohen

Israel

2022

Correspondence - A Visual Journey Diary

2022

Ended
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