Mixed Media Art

The title for my artwork 'Moon Cyclone' is derived from the notion that just the mere thought of dreaming and achieving the moon landing 50 years ago gets the mind spinning...like a cyclone. 

I digitally manipulated references from Apollo 11 by using various apps on my cell phone, which I was told is a small modern device far more technically advanced than the technology used to land the first man on the moon. 

The references within my artwork include the following:

An image of Neil Alden Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Margaret Heafield Hamilton, an American scientist and system engineer. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. I cropped out a photograph to only expose the full moon which originally included the three astronauts from Apollo 11 posing above the moon. 

I altered these three references into a dotted image then superimposed it with another dotted image including myself and the seed of life, which is a symbol of the basis for all creation, and the universe as we know it. The seven circles in the seed of life are compared to the seven days of creation, which also attributes to the different points in the universe's making. 

Lastly I deconstructed my final dotted image by dramatically twisting, spinning and whirling the picture, which coincidentally is titled ‘Cyclone’ and further elicits my title.