JUNE WAYNE・Art & Science
The Celestial Works
Space Exploration

“It’s probable that the future will be a disaster. I believe we are going to try to colonize space which would devour our resources with terrifying rapidity. Our planet may have become unreclaimable already, as the ozone crisis and other kinds of pollution are making manifest. I have looked into that wilderness of space and reported back how beautiful it is, but it wouldn’t stay that way once we got our nasty little hooks into it. It comforts me that galactic space is not going to welcome us. We are suffocating our world little by little, and it is our friend, our natural habitat: other worlds will do us in a good deal faster. ”

— June Wayne in conversation with Robert Barrett, Director of the Fresno Art Museum, 1988.

“This atmospheric space is unqualified energy and information, an effluence of pure surface with a life of its own. In rare air, we can become intoxicated. Part of the heady romanticism is a hero we ourselves conjure, the persona of the object-work struggling to encompass conflicts and differences, ambiguities and absolutes, field and detail, idealism and literalness, size and scale, even myth making and history.”

— Arlene Raven, June Wayne The Djuna Set.

Image of June Wayne Echo State II — Echo State II

Image of June Wayne Hommage A La Demeure — Hommage A La Demeure

“As for living in space cities, you can have a foretaste of that: just spend a week inside any Hyatt Regency Hotel. I’d love to go, but independent thinkers like artists could not exist in the regimented way that space requires. We might poke a brush through the dome. How would you like to spend the rest of your life in the equivalent of a very small shopping mall? I personally believe that the social structure in space would have to be dictatorial. Even if our biological frailties could be handled, is that the kind of life we want? As I see it, the only reason to colonize space would be the certain news that the earth is going to collide with another planet. Only a predictable destruction of earth could justify the diversion of resources necessary to colonize in space.”

— June Wayne, June Wayne The Djuna Set

Image of June Wayne Green Edge — Green Edge State II

Image of June Wayne Escape State II — Escape State II

Image of June Wayne Escape — Escape State I

Image of June Wayne Escape State I — Green Edge State I

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JUNE WAYNE・Art & Science
The Celestial Works
Space Exploration