Omar Mancilla

Native Gold with Quartz

Locality: Tombstone District, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona.

Never been a better time to sign up for my art blog newsletter! Here's a sneak peek at tomorrow's theme, on space trash. I've been slowly collecting examples for years.

That's us, together.

While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us. 

In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.

In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.

Waicom 16 installation, 1971. Weismantel Associates, Inc, via University of Minnesota Charles Babbage Institute. (Archive)