Art for Artemis – Ellen, Johan, Fanny, Benjamin, Emanuel

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 Ellen, Johan, Fanny, Benjamin, Emanuel from the Forsbergs skola: Copywriting and Graphic Design in Sweden.

"The art is one hundred percent made by machines – made by humans. In other words we made it using computers. By combining gradients and vectors we were trying to catch the feeling of 10 different pieces coming together and forming a heart in space.

As we were researching ESA’s activities and operations, we came to the realisation that none of it would be possible without national collaboration. With our artwork, we therefore wanted to highlight how ten countries have collaborated to create something extraordinary together – a module making it possible to travel to the moon. Beyond this, we came to the conclusion that the module is of a technical nature, making it harder for people to connect with the project. With the hope of getting more people to forge an emotional bond with ESA, our artwork represents an anatomic heart made of ten pieces, each one representing a contributing country. Because when we go to space, we want to remind ourselves that partnership is essential. And that we are more than just modules and machines. We are humans."

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.