Concept Narrative:
Blue Moon (Theia), is a creation and visitation story that places Sacramento, the Great Valley, western North America and the viewer into a larger cosmic narrative. According to recent science (merging with mythic narratives of the Moon’s creation), a massive planet/object named Theia, named after the mythological Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, goddess of the Moon, collided with the Earth, generating fragmentary material composed of both Earth and Theia These myriad fragments coalesced in time to became the Moon. In the artwork, Blue Moon (Theia), the moon symbolically visits it’s step-parent Earth after some 4 billion years since its inception. At the airport, about a third of the way along the new South Walkway heading north - at it’s 45 degree bend - a ‘moon-space’ occurs as if a smaller, translucent version of the Moon had merged with the walkway. |
The Earth’s Moon, an image well known in both story and science hovering above in the sky - now represented on Earth as part of an airline passenger’s imagination conceptualized within a cosmic, evolutionary narrative. The translucent window graphics with curved edges of the moon’s surface projected inward from the intersecting moon -sphere are derived from a large-scale NASA panorama of our moon’s surface. The curved edge terrazzo floor of the walkway within the circular domain of the moon image has meteorite-like slices as inclusions in the terrazzo, symbolic relatives of the fragments from Earth and Theia. Additional moon-surface images occur on the columns within the ‘moon-space.’ A blue painted ceiling with down spots highlighting the meteor inclusions mixed with blue light create a spatial essence as if within the moon-sphere, night or day.
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