The Art of Space Art

Kastalia Medrano | The Paris Review | 14th September 2017

An apposite essay in a week when the Cassini spacecraft is no more. Space art thrives, seemingly unconstrained by the flow of factual deep space images. “Humans have always been able to imagine more for ourselves than we can achieve, and this idealism lends a touch of heartache to space art. We can picture the world that could exist, the lives we could be having.”