I am one of thirty finalists in the Kruger Cowne Rising Star Programme. The Rising Star Programme gives one young person the opportunity to travel into space. I want that opportunity.
My experiences on earth have been bitter sweet. It’s been a crazy roller coaster and I'm only 23. I had to deal with lots of bullying, threatening behaviour and feeling like I don’t belong here. I still do not understand why it was okay for a small group of people to make me feel worthless for so many years. Even though all this happened, I still managed to utilise my skills to get out of that situation and miraculously I managed to have faith! I’ve now been honoured for my contribution to the arts by a very elite group of people. It’s such a drastic change of circumstances in a short period of time. I really want to put a positive stamp on the world and express an air of inclusion for those people who at one point or another felt segregated from society. I want to use my creativity to inspire positivity and instigate change.
I applied to the Rising Star Programme because I believe art to be important and I believe sending a creative person to space would be revolutionary for humanity. To get a creative perspective on life. I want the chance to see earth all at once, I really want to understand life and illustrate my ideas and thoughts to other young people and hopefully ignite positivity. Unfortunately not everyone understands science, maths or even space but art is universal. People respond to imagery and writing can be translated into languages and reach everyone, even the blind. I have a scroll of questions about life, earth and wonder about creativities place in our ever changing series of worldwide environments. I don’t know if space holds answers, if seeing the world from above will change anything. I hope to find out if there is space for the arts in space.
What is space to a creative? I am so curious and spend my time forever question what all this is. For me, there is something neurotically fascinating about the solar system. We call it “our” solar system although I don’t believe we own it. We actually spend most of our time impacting negatively on it. The idea that everything and nothing is in it. We are part of it and cannot escape it. How much space is there? I hear we are set to run out of it on earth. I am interested in the idea of that visual. Is space reserved only for science and if so, why? I always see such incredible images of space and wonder why the art in those photographs are secondary to the science in them. Space is beautiful, creativity can illustrate that.
Science and space travel are both about innovation. Creativity is about that too, it is forever pushing boundaries. It seems to me the two fields, science and arts, are not so different, when given the chance both fields can collide in the ultimate display of beauty. People throughout history looking through microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses, all of those people witnessed seeing something new. Something unimaginable and beautiful.
Art comes in many forms and has incredible benefits. The American Journal of Public Health published an entire study on the benefits art had on mental health issues a few years back. For me, art gave me a purpose and an escape from constant bullying through school. It kept me alive and distracted me from the negatives in my life. Art is everywhere in our society, whether we notice or not. Everything we use was imagined, drawn, dreamt up or designed by artists, designers, inventors. Without them you would not have the chairs you sit on, the packaging for your products, the products to put in the packaging. I think we owe creativity some celebration. Young people have art all around them now and they can use it to push for positivity and be inspired. Art now manifests through technology, science, invention, app development, game design… Will.i.am pumped his music out from Mars! When science and art come together, the positive outcomes are endless. Maybe one day we will be able to do something crazy like project artists work on the moon at night? It was always my dream as a child to have an art exhibition on the moon and I don’t think that’s impossible. I really think art and science can work well together to create new concepts and advancements. Maybe sending an artist to space will kick off a new generation of possibilities.
I want to know, does art have a purpose in the universe? Why is the infinitely possible, seemingly impossible? I want to know why the arts are treated as less important to humanity when in reality they are vital. Why do we get less and less funding, why are we made fun of? I know when men and women were dwelling in cave systems, along with food and flame, they had artwork on the walls. They danced and entertained. No writing, no science, no engineering, no maths, no schools, no governments, no money, no talk of space travel. Art was used by people to make their own discoveries and to document human life throughout history. People were discovering who they were, what they were and why they were through art. Why do so many people laugh at art which has existed for so long, but not at the idea of space travel?
To me, something imagined and created by a fellow artist is so much more beautiful, meaningful and so much more precious and everlasting than something like money, but it still means less. Does money really make the world turn, can that be seen from space? Can science and art come together more often? Can war, pain, destruction, greed and envy be seen from space? Is beauty still prevalent in society, how beautiful is the earth? Does the beauty of our magical space rock outweigh the negative impact we often have on it? I hope it does.
To succeed and head to space with the Rising Star Programme would be huge. The ticket is more than luck, it holds so much responsibility and opportunity. I really want to know what earth is truly like and what viewing it from above means to the average person. There is a chance here to show a generation that the limits placed upon us by societies do not exist. That the impossible can be possible. To be the one person chosen to explore an alien environment and document the experience, it would be my chance to express my voice. I don’t know what I will see there or what I will experience. I am so curious and I want to showcase earth through creativity, arts, writing, poetry, stories. For me, I was inspired by Giorgio Morandi growing up. His life was very structured and he painted the same things every day, same with Gilbert and George who eat the same food every day and wear the same clothes every day. They were and are challenging the rules we place upon ourselves and I also want to shine a light on this, not through repetition but through what has never yet been done. I want to make a young humanity aware of how impactful creativity can be. Maybe sending an artist to space won’t be so crazy an idea in years to come, it just takes one.
I applied to the Rising Star Programme because I believe art to be important and I believe sending a creative person to space would be revolutionary for humanity. To get a creative perspective on life. I want the chance to see earth all at once, I really want to understand life and illustrate my ideas and thoughts to other young people and hopefully ignite positivity. Unfortunately not everyone understands science, maths or even space but art is universal. People respond to imagery and writing can be translated into languages and reach everyone, even the blind. I have a scroll of questions about life, earth and wonder about creativities place in our ever changing series of worldwide environments. I don’t know if space holds answers, if seeing the world from above will change anything. I hope to find out if there is space for the arts in space.
What is space to a creative? I am so curious and spend my time forever question what all this is. For me, there is something neurotically fascinating about the solar system. We call it “our” solar system although I don’t believe we own it. We actually spend most of our time impacting negatively on it. The idea that everything and nothing is in it. We are part of it and cannot escape it. How much space is there? I hear we are set to run out of it on earth. I am interested in the idea of that visual. Is space reserved only for science and if so, why? I always see such incredible images of space and wonder why the art in those photographs are secondary to the science in them. Space is beautiful, creativity can illustrate that.
Science and space travel are both about innovation. Creativity is about that too, it is forever pushing boundaries. It seems to me the two fields, science and arts, are not so different, when given the chance both fields can collide in the ultimate display of beauty. People throughout history looking through microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses, all of those people witnessed seeing something new. Something unimaginable and beautiful.
Art comes in many forms and has incredible benefits. The American Journal of Public Health published an entire study on the benefits art had on mental health issues a few years back. For me, art gave me a purpose and an escape from constant bullying through school. It kept me alive and distracted me from the negatives in my life. Art is everywhere in our society, whether we notice or not. Everything we use was imagined, drawn, dreamt up or designed by artists, designers, inventors. Without them you would not have the chairs you sit on, the packaging for your products, the products to put in the packaging. I think we owe creativity some celebration. Young people have art all around them now and they can use it to push for positivity and be inspired. Art now manifests through technology, science, invention, app development, game design… Will.i.am pumped his music out from Mars! When science and art come together, the positive outcomes are endless. Maybe one day we will be able to do something crazy like project artists work on the moon at night? It was always my dream as a child to have an art exhibition on the moon and I don’t think that’s impossible. I really think art and science can work well together to create new concepts and advancements. Maybe sending an artist to space will kick off a new generation of possibilities.
I want to know, does art have a purpose in the universe? Why is the infinitely possible, seemingly impossible? I want to know why the arts are treated as less important to humanity when in reality they are vital. Why do we get less and less funding, why are we made fun of? I know when men and women were dwelling in cave systems, along with food and flame, they had artwork on the walls. They danced and entertained. No writing, no science, no engineering, no maths, no schools, no governments, no money, no talk of space travel. Art was used by people to make their own discoveries and to document human life throughout history. People were discovering who they were, what they were and why they were through art. Why do so many people laugh at art which has existed for so long, but not at the idea of space travel?
To me, something imagined and created by a fellow artist is so much more beautiful, meaningful and so much more precious and everlasting than something like money, but it still means less. Does money really make the world turn, can that be seen from space? Can science and art come together more often? Can war, pain, destruction, greed and envy be seen from space? Is beauty still prevalent in society, how beautiful is the earth? Does the beauty of our magical space rock outweigh the negative impact we often have on it? I hope it does.
To succeed and head to space with the Rising Star Programme would be huge. The ticket is more than luck, it holds so much responsibility and opportunity. I really want to know what earth is truly like and what viewing it from above means to the average person. There is a chance here to show a generation that the limits placed upon us by societies do not exist. That the impossible can be possible. To be the one person chosen to explore an alien environment and document the experience, it would be my chance to express my voice. I don’t know what I will see there or what I will experience. I am so curious and I want to showcase earth through creativity, arts, writing, poetry, stories. For me, I was inspired by Giorgio Morandi growing up. His life was very structured and he painted the same things every day, same with Gilbert and George who eat the same food every day and wear the same clothes every day. They were and are challenging the rules we place upon ourselves and I also want to shine a light on this, not through repetition but through what has never yet been done. I want to make a young humanity aware of how impactful creativity can be. Maybe sending an artist to space won’t be so crazy an idea in years to come, it just takes one.
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