Family of Man

And I don't know if I should go back to the entire recital of the, you know, the genealogy of this work, but, you know, a short genealogy would be, you know, a few months ago, in fact, a work I made in 2018 to 2020 called Covering Letter Terra Nullius was recently part of a solo project at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where images that left planet Earth on the golden records on the Voyager 1 and 2 space mission was essentially at the heart of the work.

And it's essentially through the images within the Voyager, images put together by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan that led me to the Family of Man, you know, alongside-

The exhibition at MoMA, the Edward Steichen curated exhibition at MoMA.

Edward Steichen curated exhibition that traveled, you know-

It was making its journey around the world while A119 was in the plans, you know.

So they are actually almost like doppelgangers to each other, you know, coming out of the same administration's imagination, but completely different, taking different paths, different, you know.

But Family of Man became part of a body of work called Epicycles, you know, between 2020 and 2023.

And I was progressively getting interested in the Cold War as a way to think about the wars that, you know, continue to reincarnate and reincarnate in different forms in different parts of the world.