#spacelands

[leonadi]

a bunch of junk of my sweet sweet police boy from my last two space bounty hunting rpg sessions :’’’) (yes we had a beach episode)

[leonadi]

I was commissioned by the lovely testytiger to draw this piece of all of our characters from her tabletop rpg, Spacelands Academy!!

of course these nerds would try to do something ridiculous on photo day smh

[beanshoot]

The announcement of the first commercial space flight prompted Paul Freeman to explore the American mid-West, looking for and photographing the traces of the rocket age of the 1950s, as well as the new sites dedicated to space travel. Nostalgic Americana, sumptous landscapes, seemingly absurd space-age ephemera, all entertwined with a gentle sense of humour and a subtle political discourse, make Paul Freeman's series, Space Lands, a very compelling body of work.

Shown at the ASA Collective slideshow earlier this month, I was interested in how Paul's work seems to capture, highlight and magnify all the contradictions inherent in man's fascination with space, and the conceit to dominate it: the absurd and the tender, the laughable and the serious, the terrifying and the self-aggrandising, the desolate and the vibrant.