Silverwood Park - SpaceBath!

I recently found out that I'm a finalist for a small public art commission for Silverwood Park in Northeast Minneapolis.

It's a pleasant lake and park that has a great nature center, gallery and lots of great programs.

I don't typically do artwork related to nature directly, but a lot of my work is related to the damage we cause as humans or pointed conversations on our use of water and other resources. So...I didn't want to make a work featuring plants and animals but rather technology.

So I came up with an astronaut in a bathtub...

Sometimes using the opposite concept can reflect on the actual .With all the talk about 'Space Forces' and exploration, we really have to be reminded that we are on a rock moving through space and that is also part of our natural world. We need to take care of our planet and protect it. An astronaut trying to clean up in a bathtub highlights this fact - we can't bath in space so we need to protect the water we have.

Wish me luck!