"Fire To Be Lighted" by Alan Bean
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A Fire to be Lighted, LIMITED
EDITION CANVAS
Alan Bean
Image size: 18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100 $650.00
Published from the artist's
original work.
EDITION CANVAS
Alan Bean
Image size: 18"w x 27"h.
Edition Size:100 $650.00
Published from the artist's
original work.
“The Falcon is on the Plain at Hadley.” These were the first words
heard back on Earth when Dave Scott and Jim Irwin made their
landing in July 1971. Falcon had alighted them on a scientific
bonanza.As Dave looked around from Falcon’s overhead hatch, he
thought, “No place on Earth has such a concentration of features.”
There were mountains taller than Everest (relative to their
surroundings) and a meandering
gorge a mile across, a thousand feet deep and seventy miles long.
Lunar exploration had come a long way since Neil and Buzz made
their first moonwalk just two years earlier. Dave and Jim had the
lunar rover, a moon car that would make possible five times the total
surface exploration of the three previous missions combined; and
they had improved space suit backpacks which allowed them to
stay outside their spacecraft nearly twice as long as any of us who
had flown earlier.
I have painted Dave Scott, a good friend and skilled explorer, at the
pinnacle of his astronaut career. In his own words, “We went to the
Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with our
instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise
man who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew
of Apollo 15 when he wrote ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but
a fire to be lighted.’”
heard back on Earth when Dave Scott and Jim Irwin made their
landing in July 1971. Falcon had alighted them on a scientific
bonanza.As Dave looked around from Falcon’s overhead hatch, he
thought, “No place on Earth has such a concentration of features.”
There were mountains taller than Everest (relative to their
surroundings) and a meandering
gorge a mile across, a thousand feet deep and seventy miles long.
Lunar exploration had come a long way since Neil and Buzz made
their first moonwalk just two years earlier. Dave and Jim had the
lunar rover, a moon car that would make possible five times the total
surface exploration of the three previous missions combined; and
they had improved space suit backpacks which allowed them to
stay outside their spacecraft nearly twice as long as any of us who
had flown earlier.
I have painted Dave Scott, a good friend and skilled explorer, at the
pinnacle of his astronaut career. In his own words, “We went to the
Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with our
instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise
man who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew
of Apollo 15 when he wrote ‘the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but
a fire to be lighted.’”
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