Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome.
Andres Padilla Domene
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How the Space Race Altered Art in the Americas
Space exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969.
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A Homemade Artist Train Runs on the Abandoned Rails of Mexico
When much of a railway intended to connect Mexico City to the Atlantic Ocean was abandoned in 1995, communities were stranded and tracks were left to decay. From 2010 to 2012, Mexican artists and brothers Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene set out to ride those nearly 9,000 kilometers of rails in a retro-future exploratory vehicle called the SEFT-1.