Research Project Number 33 was an interdisciplinary action that bridged the sensibility of the artist with the technology of space flight. On 4 April 1998, I flew aboard a NASA KC135 turbojet over the Gulf of Mexico from Houston’s Johnson Space Center and experienced the awe-inspiring sensation of creating art in a microgravity environment as scientific research.
My intention was simple: to eliminate the structural support—the canvas—while creating paintings floating in mid-air, with my body enveloped in the composition. I intended for technology and microgravity to contribute to the organic development of these kinetic “drift paintings,” with spontaneity and serendipity orchestrating the results
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