Kristina Okan SEED
Material: unglazed porcelain (Limoges) Size: 1x1x1cm
Seeds are the symbol of the beginning of nature – its conception, its literal starting point. One cannot but marvel to see how, after one plants a seed in the soil, a small stem starts to grow little by little. Give water and sun to a seed, and it will evolve into a majestic vegetable creature. The power of transformation of a seed reaches mythical proportions.
My seed symbolizes that feeling of anticipation and wonder. Porcelain is a material that comes from soil. A petrified piece of earth fired at over a thousand degrees and transformed into delicate pieces that sustain the passing of time for centuries and even millennia. It has been one of the greatest inventions of mankind since the Stone Age. It is fragile yet permanent. Solid yet delicate.
For the Test Flight in collaboration with Nanoracks, Moon Gallery flies to the International Space Station aboard the NG-17 rocket within the framework of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply mission in February of 2022. This edition of the gallery grid features 8×8 cells housing 64 physical artefacts and one engraved AR artwork. 65 art projects featured in the gallery will reach the final frontier of human habitat and mark the historical meeting point of the Moon Gallery and the cosmos. Reaching low Earth orbit on our way to the Moon is the first step in extending our cultural dialogue to space.
Credit: NASA, Nanoracks
View from ISS
Credits: NASA, Nanoracks, Moon Gallery Foundation
Credits: Moon Gallery Foundation