"Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any p..." — Trevor Paglen

On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.