ROCKETS #2 & #1
painted wood, aluminum needle
6½"x 3¼"x 3¼"
In 2017 I made two rockets to go into a collaborative sculpture. The rocket was designed to be a shorter and simpler version of Tintin’s rocket in ‘Destination Moon’. The two rockets were painted in several coats of a sandable white primer, and the rocket to go into the collaborative sculpture was painted with red acrylic paint using a paintbrush so you could see the brushstrokes — it was supposed to be painterly to match the painted areas in the collaborative work. This second rocket — the fallback rocket in case the first one got broken while attaching it to the collaborative — was left simply with the primer for some months. After a while I decided to go ahead and paint it only this time I used glossy red spray paint and then sealed all over with glossy clear lacquer to look more like Tintin’s rocket. It now sits on the living room mantle.
Below is the more painterly first rocket as fitted into the work done collaboratively with Marti Forkner Vernon and Micah Gougen.
