Art for Artemis – Edoardo

ESA has teamed up with eight art schools around Europe and challenged their students to produce art inspired by Artemis, lunar exploration and the European Service Module that will provide the power, propulsion, water and air for the astronauts on board.

Students made 24 artworks that we will showcase on the Orion blog over the coming months. Using a variety of techniques and from many different cultural backgrounds, the artists have thought about what human spaceflight to the Moon and beyond signifies.

This artwork was made by Edoardo Follegatti from the Scuola Internazionale di Comics, in Turin, Italy.

"I tried to obtain a level of synthesis that would be, if made into a giant picture, not overbearing but at the same time, have the most evocative messaging possible. I chose a stroke with a small amount of cross-hatching combined with a simple palette but with strong contrasts."

As the only place that humans have seen with their own eyes throughout history, our Moon features heavily in world cultures. The Artemis programme, itself named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Moon, will take humans back to our natural satellite and, in doing so, will become memorialised in popular culture.

All the artworks are available on ESA's Orion blog with interviews with the artists.