Our last feature for the Art for Artemis project, artwork 22 is from Inés Bueno Pascual studying in Madrid, Spain.

Credits: Inés Bueno Pascual

What school are you studying at and what degree?

I am currently studying for a Master’s degree in Art Education in Social and Cultural Institutions at the Complutense University of Madrid, and a degree in Psychology at the same university.

Tell us about the technique used to make your Art for Artemis piece

The tool I used for the design was Adobe Illustrator. The shapes were created from scratch with vectors. It is a symmetrical composition in which the Moon is placed in the centre as the protagonist. However, the human figures are cut out with the powerful dark tone drawing attention to themselves in the foreground, being the real protagonists of the story.

What inspired you to make the artwork and who are your inspirations in general?

For the figures of the people, I was directly inspired by Equipo Artemis, using their photographs as the starting point for the silhouettes.

On the other hand, for the astronauts’ suits, I was inspired by the Orion spacesuit, the suit equipped for Artemis missions. In this case I didn’t want the people inside to be visible, to leave room for the imagination. The astronaut suit is already a suit that does not distinguish between men and women, so anyone could be inside it.

The phrase is inspired by the famous quote: “It’s a small step for one man, but a giant leap for mankind”. A phrase uttered by Neil Armstrong as he set foot on the surface of the moon on 20 July 1969. This phrase came from my great friend and physicist Hamza Akoudad Ekajouan.

In my works in general, I tend to be directly inspired by sensations and emotions.

Do you have any thoughts to share about the Moon and human spaceflight?

I find the great Artemis project fascinating. Not only will the first woman travel to the moon, but also the first works of art! And I am very excited about the colleagues who can be part of this beautiful project. Mankind has used art on many occasions to transport itself beyond the Earth, but now it will be art itself that will be transported out.