“[Paul] Van Hoeydonck is in a more nostalgic frame of mind… He wells up briefly on our computer screen over Skype. ‘I don’t like the story not being told truthfully. I don’t exist in history. I am the only human being who has been able to get a sculpture to the moon. Nobody can take that away from me.'”
An ego visible from space. A sculpture that manages to be entirely devoid of sentiment even with seemingly noble inspiration, Fallen Astronaut is, without question, interesting only in its earthly context, nicely contextualized in an article by Corey Powell and Laurie Shapiro on Slate.
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