Noah’s Space Shuttle

This space art is an updated version of the Noah’s Arc story. It features the Space Shuttle as the Arc, with the animals filing in two by two.

The original inspiration for this came after I had visited an exhibit of Vatican Art at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. There were some Michelangelo sketches there. The idea of being that close to something that Michelangelo had created with his own hands really blew me away. In this frame of mind, I came across a Noah’s Arc painting by another artist, and being an animal lover, I dwelt there for a while.

I was still thinking about the experience as we drove out of Toronto. I live in a small city so the traffic leaving Toronto, eight lanes worth of people in a hurry, was combined with my artistic thoughts. Thinking about the Noah’s Arc painting, overwhelmed by all the traffic, the overpasses, the great mass of humanity roaring off in all different directions, and “Poof”, this painting germinated. The animals in this space art required a more contemporary setting so the Space Shuttle replaced Noah’s Arc, and the expressway overpasses replaced the sea.

This painting is dedicated to those exceptional few astronauts, who bravely soar so high above the rest of us.

This painting has participated in the following International Exhibits;

Fall Art Show, Guests Gallery, Lilburn, Georgia, USA 2006

An International Presentation of Portfolio’s, the Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany 2006

The Wholy Book, a Portrait of the year 2003 onto the Bible, Berlin, Germany 2003