Margot Cormier Splane Internationally Exhibited Artist

Noah's Space Shuttle

2003 32 x 50.25 ~ 80 x 125.5 cm Acrylic Painting

The original inspiration for this came after I had visited an exhibit of Vatican Art at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. There were some Michelangelo sketches there, the idea of being that close to something that he had actually created with his own hands really blew me away. In this frame of mind I came across a Noah's Arc painting by another artist, and being an animal lover, I dwelt there for a while.

I was still thinking about the painting while we drove out of Toronto. Man that traffic, eight lanes worth of people in a hurry. Lanes feeding more traffic in, trying to be in the right lane so that you are not forced to exit early, but at the same time setting yourself up so that you can get to the correct exit when the time comes. Thinking about the Noah's Arc painting, overwhelmed by all the traffic, the overpasses, the great mass of humanity roaring off in all different directions, "Poof", this painting germinated.

I was in the composition stages of this painting, when the Space Shuttle Columbia blew up. In the course of my research I had 4 different books on the space shuttle that I was going through. Trying to see the shuttle from all different angles, trying to get a feel for the scale. Just days before the disaster, I had been looking at pictures of smiling space shuttle crews. This painting is dedicated to those exceptional few who soar so high above the rest of us.

This painting has paritcipated in International Exhibits based in;

Lilburn, Georgia United States, 2006

Berlin Germany 2003

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