A painting of mine will be going to the moon!

Not the actual painting, of course. A tiny copy of it on a tile on a lander. The same sort of lander that successfully landed a few weeks ago. 

These people sent people's names for free to the moon (I sent my name) along with digital copies of books. And, of course the lander is doing experiments and sending info back to Earth now.

So, the one next year will be sending seeds. And doing experiments again, I guess. 

They asked for space related art, and I had done a painting of a galaxy a long time ago. It was from an early photo taken by the Hubble telescope. So, I sent that in.

It was accepted, but the size that I chose was $1,200! I didn't want to pay that much, so didn't. Then they sent me an email with other choices. To pay $250, for a tiny pic, $550 for the medium sized, and $2,500 for not only the pic, but to be a featured artist, and go to some press thing in New York City. Being Canadian, of course the $2,500 one was a no go in these days.

I was thinking of the $250 one, and meant to transfer to my PayPal. I forgot to do that by the deadline.

Well, last night, I got another email. It just said that my work was going to the moon! So, here I am.

It was one of those things that I did, thinking,"Well, why not?" They can only say no. And here I am. I'm not going to space, but my art will be. And maybe future generations will be able to see it. (if they squint really hard) Or maybe aliens will. Who knows? lol

This is a numbered galaxy. It doesn't have a name. But it looked pretty, so I painted it.