Giant potato for consumption in space Print

This potato of thousands of tons, has been designed for fast delivery to heavy consumers in nearby space. Part of the potato will be used as fuel, with the help of the installation, for the two large jet engines. Size: 50 x 60 cm (19.7" x 23.6") Finished July 2014 Background story This painting is also a cartoon. The purpose of the potato in this painting is to provide sufficient food efficiently in space. This could concern the food supply for a more distant space station or, for example, for Elon Musk's Mars project. People want to learn to survive in space and preferably on another planet. Due to the enormous engine capacity, this potato could easily overtake a normal launch vehicle. The further developed skin of the potato far exceeds the heat resistance of a Space Shuttle tile. During launch and landing, the potato is covered with a temporary peel. A temporary tent made of this special potato peel. This phase of the journey is not depicted in this painting. There is a comfortable living accommodation on the back deck, a castle. There are fields, a vegetable garden and an orchard for the crew on the go. At the tip of the left wing we see a crop circle. An inevitable consequence of traveling the universe. It is not known who make these grain circles, crop circles. Maybe the crops will do it themselves. There would then be a collective autonomous vegetative design function, as the crop individuals would have to work together for this. In front of the crew's accommodation is a Bio-ethanol installation that uses part of the starch of this potato to make fuel for the in themselves economical engines. Some offshoots on this giant potato cannot be prevented. When landing in a different atmosphere, these will soon disappear. After leaving our atmosphere, the engines will continue to run for a while until the desired speed of a few million kilometers per second is reached. Then the engines are turned off. Suddenly there is a sacred peace on the potato, unless someone hits the doors on the castle. There is a bulge on the nose of the potato: a play of nature that has been left behind, even in the enormous construction pit where this squeaker was grown. In the painting we see the potato above the sea, at the moment after launch, where the first acceleration takes place. The heat released is absorbed by the sea. It's also safer than over land, where one could easily burn a herd of oxen. The viewer of the painting is invited to give his thoughts on traveling in space, with or without a tuber or fruit.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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