Space Is A Cold Place

A 1950s retro-style space illustration, a collage reminiscint of and stolen from vintage magazine images.  The stars, though countless, offer no warmth—just silent witnesses to the isolation that stretches endlessly in every direction. Despite the era’s stylized optimism, there's an eerie quality to the illustrations of space of that time, which I tried to recapture in this composition, a tension between faded color and cosmic desolation. A Blending of several illustrations of 1960s space-race magazine pieces. Glory days....