Monday, February 4, 2013

Artist Statement

Picture Perfect
            Picture Perfect all started with the idea of optimism. It is a classic tale of an adventurer and his journey to an untamed and foreign land. A person’s first time into any endeavor has a special kind of optimism and nervousness that I feel does not get replicated in later attempts. For this reason, I wanted to use audio pieces from the United States’ initial journey to the moon. The quality of audio recording in the 1960’s was much lower than in recent times, but this roughness is necessary for authenticity. The backing music for the audio pieces is an upbeat post-rock song composed using a three act structure like would be found in any typical story.
 There are some that think that the mission to space was a hoax. This is represented by the children pictured on the cover artwork. It may be that the moon landing was nothing more than a cleverly demonstrated fair-tale. Still, the ideas that came from it have inspired and will continue to inspire, as if it were the invention of imagination during a child’s playtime.
I believe our journey to space is one of the most, if not the most inspiring adventures of all human history.

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