It’s very common to see the future of space as something fantastic or clean, but I wanted to show something more mundane with this piece. Humanize how we might live when we reach that point in our development. The train is dirty from traveling to different planets, moons, and locations, and the sun sets on a scene that isn’t too far from what we’d see everyday on Earth. The excitement of space has long worn-off, and this has become daily life.

By emphasizing how water behaves in Outer Space, I wanted to express how the daily activities that happen on Earth such as brushing our teeth are different, specifically in the International Space Station. In the ISS, water is a floating sphere acting in a zero-gravity environment, when it is not interacting with another object or surface. Therefore, I decided to paint water droplets, toothbrush, and toothpaste over the window's view of earth, making the droplets reflect the earth we inhabit in a hyperrealistic way.

With planning human missions to Mars already underway, one day Mars may be a new home for some as we expand humanity across the universe.