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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 Lea Haumann (and Lynn) from the Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany.
"The inspiration of the artwork was to find an international language of greatness, dreams and new departures.
I went in search of our commonality as human beings, and it emerged through the eyes of children. Despite what makes us different, we all were children once and dreamed of exploring the vastness of this world and beyond.
The artwork was created in collaboration with Lynn (eight years old) who has given me one of her drawings. She chose her colours based on the ESA appearance."
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.