Your Eyes Would Explode (2004)

Martin Constable

Description

Yuri Gagarin, Chuck Yeager, Space Odyssey’s David Bowman – celebrated spacemen and real heroes. But what about the less glamorous side of spacemanship? Enter Jack Youngblood, a British spaceman born from the imagination of Martin Constable. This is an image Constable conjured up by referencing a set of staged photographs of himself to depict a bedraggled cosmonaut – an image more representative of the arduous and dangerous experience of being catapulted through the earth’s atmosphere and back.

Medium

Digital print

Dimensions

200 x 103 cm