I just want to go back, back to 1968

Ceramic stoneware tile-set made using a custom 3D printed roller, airbrushed with underglaze; MDF table with 3D printed components; scale-model satellite with two LCD screens and working hinge, designed, 3D printed in resin and assembled by the artist; live simulation; micro PC; spotlight.

I just want to go back, back to 1968 reimagines the Zond 5 luna flyby mission, in which two tortoises were the first terrestrial beings orbit the moon. The work conflates this animal history with Grey Walter’s Tortoises, the first artificial animals, immortalising the cosmonauts as an artificial simulation.