Once Upon A Blue Moon
Oil - 18" x 36"
2009

I blatantly took this from the NASA photo of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 walk on the lunar surface.
I took only the lunar surface, the feet of the landing module, the astronaut and the parallel footprints that mark a human biped.
I feel these are the essential symbolic elements of the astronauts' cosmic feat back there in the 1960's.

We stopped going there and thus the title of the painting.

Apollo 11's achievement culminated a journey begun by the Soviet cosmonauts
Yuri Gagarin and Tereshkova with their short flights into the cosmic space beyond Earth's atmosphere..

I share a homecoming anniversary with the crew of Apollo 11.  In 1969 they completed their journey the same day I returned to my hometown after receiving my honorable discharge from the U.S. Army's Army Security Agency during the Cold War.   We all came home to Earth that July day.  We all celebrated our 40th anniversary of those events as I began the painting.