How NFT Empowers Our Imagination of Space
Looking upward to the sky, we imagined about the Outerspace. It brightened with the sun, faded with the moon, and decorated with stars. Since ancient times, we humans can’t help relying on outer space. We are smart to trace mercurial movement and its influences on Earth. We found seasons, we distinguish day from night. Moreover, that unknown sky leads us to be religious. A big step in creating the culture and civilization. From ancient times to the present, people have never stopped exploring and pursuing the outer planets. It led humans to culture, and it is inspiring people to explore as well.
People never stop dreaming about the space
In the early stage of space exploration, people view space romantically. Ancient Indians described the universe as a semi-sphere that carried by four elephants on a giant turtle, sitting on a pile of a cobra with its tail in its mouth. We find local animals to be part of the theory, and the prototype also applies to other ancient civilizations.
Ancient people utilize local, natural elements and religious deities to depict the cosmo from their view. We used to believe animals formed a tropical universe. A turtle, elephants, and cobra from ancient India hold up a sky. Space was depicted as a circus-like position by human beings. The aesthetics were displaying an ancient Egyptian style.
Nowadays, Jeff Bezos who found Amazon has been challenging himself to explore space. His company Blue Origin is built for the future benefit of Earth by utilizing the new energy and material potential of space. Richard Brandon shares his passion for the flight from owning Virgin Group, successfully wins the bidding for an astronomical tour with Bezos. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has put his head into the X-Space program, making plans for an aero journey soon in the future.
We could see that the unknown space never fails to intrigue human beings since ancient times.
Space is a long-lasting inspiration for artists
As people never stop the depiction of the cosmo, the artwork about space builds a conversation between technology and art. Hence, the space theme is a budding and evergreen topic for creation.
In the age of contemporary depiction of the art of space, science fiction movies visualize the imagination of brilliant writers into a widespread language, calling for awareness and reflection on the relationship between art and science. Beyond the Aquila Rift belongs to the popular science fiction series Love, Death, and Robots. We may find familiar metaphors with astrology elements.
Virgin Mary floating in the spaceship comforts the spirit of lost souls — in space. Besides the familiar halo and cape, we see her in the astronaut suit holding her holy child. Religion never fades away, it evolves with the era to make people accompanied.
The floating pieces of the celestial body unveil the aesthetic of the space people have been dreaming of. It is completely another world when we observe from the view of the characters. People get fantasized about space is not because of space itself, it is about people who may get solutions to current problems on Earth with a completely different system from the cosmo. Chemical elements could double or triple the number on the Earth, astronauts may encounter other high-intelligent creatures from other civilizations that sparkes inspiration, or cause wars.
The worship of the cosmos has evolved to the conversation discussing the modern relationship between cosmo and human beings. NFT accelerates the efficiency of the way artists distribute their creativity, as well as reshapes the art industry with blockchain technology.
Crypto art embraces the latest technology and expresses its worldview with the help of NFT. Crypto art should be proud, for its internet-based nature nurtures meme humour, 3D rendering, and sometimes, digital physic engine to maximize the critical imagination.
Space，Astronaut and Cyberpunk
Crypto artists are the natives exposed to the internet community, who is blessed with acumens of emerging trends and cyberpunk.
Let’s imagine how a cute kitten sends itself to space, without losing the cuteness. The kitten lives an abundant life without worries but decided on an adventure escaping the boring life without any challenges. It made its own equipment when sending itself from the Planet-Meow. It named itself Cat-astronaut” to begin its journey. This is a sci-fi fairytale that embraces humour and a lovely character. You may read it to your children as cyber bed stories.
The pink tone makes minds soft. Mbsjq, the artist who is obsessed with iridescence and outer space, invites us to take a journey to the cyber tropical beach to enjoy the coconut tree and flamingo balloon on the neon beach. Rainbow Haze is one of mbsjq’s noticeable pieces sold for 100 ETH ($203088). The blue and pink tones reflect California, which warms the astronaut suit with dreamy bubbles. The Universe has its soft character for humanity.
Quite different from the cozy cyber California beach, Cyber Sailor Moon connects the mechanic body with classic Japanese comic and animation Sailor Moon. The outer space warrior protects love and justice with their Earth identity in the original work and the artist XY would like to continue the universal belief. The 2D expression of the work mixes graffiti and woodblock print as a language to reinvent her inspirations and childhood memory.
Astronauts are symbols that represent the courage of exploration. But they are human too. When crypto artist Yellosesame takes a personal view of astronauts, he finds them could be hesitant sometimes as well. In his creation of the 20-sec animation loop with music and sound effect, the astronaut is floating in a tunnel-like space with neon lights. Flipping and over, he seems not to have a destination. But the soft yet firm background music hints at an ultimate destination that the astronaut will reach eventually. The 3D rendering and physical modeling make it possible to open up space imagination for cosmo. Space is indeed a classic topic, and the digital technology that crypto art uses for creation is perfect for the theme.
As we review the chronology of space-inspired art, the subject of exploration has shifted from mysterious religious deities to human beings, the romantic and vague depiction evolved to precise, technology buttressed scientific records from satellites. Art as the spiritual motivation has driven the evolution of the technology of space exploration, and it will continuously inspire and even resolve some problems and shorts in practical and emotional aspects.
NFT as the fast lane to distribute crypto art which frequently discusses the worldview of space exploration, catalyzes the infinite potential of the next revolution of art and science.
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