Scott Listfield captures poignant moments of irony in his paintings that juxtapose a Mercury Program era astronaut with commercialized symbols of today's "progress" It was one thing to see Hilton or Pan American Airlines promoted in orbit in "2001: A Space Odyssey", but this is something entirely different. One can only wonder what the astronaut is thinking during these encounters. Perhaps something close to what we might be thinking when we try to do things which should long ago been made far simpler or better like printing a document or taking a flight.
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