Asteroid, 2020

From my trip to the library looking for an image of a diagram, I also snapped some images of planets and asteroids. This one, '243 Ida', had a particularly potato-like shape. I wanted to add some sci-fi leaning images to the series. It would have an effect on the Blank paintings, which could potentially be looked on as empty space. I have always been attracted to space and the space race. This asteroid shape makes it slightly comical at the way these huge objects hang there in space and have an air of pathos.

 — Andrew Grassie, 2020