Fly me to the moon

2008, coloured pencil on paper.

Blindside Gallery, Melbourne. Group exhibition with Tatjana Plitt & Luke Devine. Catalogue essay by Anusha Kenny.

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ and ‘Come Fly with Me’ are Sinatra classics of 1950s crooning. But when the reality of what happens when romance turns, is something very different. The loss of control often associated with being in love is here taken to an extreme, with violent results.

Here ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ sets the stage for a darker tale: the story of Lisa Nowak who attempted to kidnap her love objects new girlfriend in a real life crime of passion set against the NASA Space Program.

‘Come Fly with Me’ tells another tale, this time of Canada of the 1940s. Albert Guay was married when he fell in love with a waitress and decided to blow up a plane full of people, so as to do away with his wife and live off the insurance with his new love.

Obsession and infatuation taken to the most extreme ends.