Moon/Weston/Mars

Artist Rick McKee Hock (American, 1947 - 2015)

Date1989

MediumPolaroid transfer print

DimensionsImage: 10 × 22 3/8 inches (25.4 × 56.85 cm)
Sheet: 22 9/16 × 30 3/16 inches

Credit LineGift of Del and Sharon Zogg in memory of Rick McKee Hock

Object number2022.7.2

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "Rick McKee Hock '89"

InscribedStamp on sheet verso, lower left corner, in black ink: "WILD HISTORY / [Image of skull with scissors below and hands with pointing fingers on either side]"; On sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "ID / (MOON/WESTON/MARS)".

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DescriptionThree images: The left image of a partial bootprint in a powdery surface with the notation "The lunar landscape, 1969", the center image is of a "Weston Master IV" photographic light meter, and the right image appears to depict a face emerging from a pebbled landscape; the resolution is low and the details are obscured.

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