{"id":41446,"date":"2013-12-17T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-sculpture-on-the-moon-paul-van-hoeydoncks\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:51:22","slug":"via-sculpture-on-the-moon-paul-van-hoeydoncks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-sculpture-on-the-moon-paul-van-hoeydoncks\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41446 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-sculpture-on-the-moon-paul-van-hoeydoncks\/attachment\/41447\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mxz07bjYGo1qescblo1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2013\/12\/sculpture_on_the_moon_paul_van_hoeydonck_s_fallen_astronaut.html\">Sculpture on the moon: Paul van Hoeydonck\u2019s Fallen Astronaut.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Making art that satisfied both van Hoeydonck\u2019s futurist aesthetic and Scott\u2019s somber philosophical goals proved a delicate process. \u201cI am not an easy man to work with; I like to work alone,\u201d van Hoeydonck confesses. Building on the concept of his Astros, he wanted to evoke the epic journey of the space explorers. (\u201cTo our children they are normal; to our grandchildren they will be myth,\u201d he told a UPI reporter at the time.) Scott and his Apollo crewmates were thinking instead about a personal memorial: \u201cWe came up with the idea of recognizing the guys who\u2019d died in the pursuit of space,\u201d Scott tells us by phone from his Los Angeles home.\u00a0\u201cWe also wanted to recognize our Soviet colleagues as well\u201d\u2014a remarkable sentiment at the height of the space race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Sculpture on the moon: Paul van Hoeydonck\u2019s Fallen Astronaut.) Making art that satisfied both van Hoeydonck\u2019s futurist aesthetic and Scott\u2019s somber philosophical goals proved a delicate process. \u201cI am not an easy man to work with; I like to work alone,\u201d van Hoeydonck confesses. Building on the concept of his Astros, he wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-41446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aMu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41448,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446\/revisions\/41448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}