"The Darkening" is the original artwork included in the Legends of the Moon exhibition of artworks. The works selected for inclusion in Legends of the Moon will be included in the Lunar Codex: Polaris mission.
The selected works will be catalogued and included in the Lunar Codex. The U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a plan, the Artemis Program, to land humans back on the Moon in 2025, for the first time in over 50 years.
Along with NASA instruments, these missions will carry commercial payloads, including the three time capsules that make up The Lunar Codex. This will be the first significant placement of contemporary arts on the Moon in 50 years. While focused on visual art, the Lunar Codex also includes a substantial collection of contemporary books, stories, poetry, films, music, essays, and more.
“The Polaris Collection” is going to be on the payload associated with an Astrobotic Griffin/NASA VIPER mission, landing in the vicinity of the Lunar South Pole. This piece, party of Legends of the Moon, will be on this mission.
As an arts and culture project, The Lunar Codex has been called the most expansive, international, and diverse collection of contemporary culture launched to the Moon. Significantly, it is the first project to launch the works of women artists to the lunar surface. It is also the first project, to our knowledge, to place film and music on the Moon.
The Lunar Codex represents creative work from Canada, the U.S., China, India, the E.U., Australia, the U.K., and indeed from 89 countries and territories from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Oceania and Asia — firsts on the Moon for many of these countries.
- Framed: 14 x 14 x 3 in (35.56 x 35.56 x 7.62 cm)