Pilat’s Perspective on Apollo

Applying a series of numbers by the signature (bottom left of canvas), a Pilat tradition. Each number represents the hours spent on successive days working on this particular piece

Featured on canvas (photos below): the assembly that held the square canisters made famous during the Apollo 13 emergency where they had to use duct tape and binder covers to adapt the square peg to the round canister hole of the Lunar Module. The lithium hydroxide in each canister absorbs CO2 from the air, which otherwise would rise to toxic levels during the mission.

Pilat’s Disrupt series:
“I like to arrange my machines in a formal composition, creating heroic portraits of the aristocracy of the past. These aren’t quick snapshots from a cellphone or Polaroid camera, but instead staged photographs… like old family albums or royal portraits. They are posing for their rightful place in the museum halls of royal posterity. They are both witnesses and agents of change. These paintings strive to do the impossible for their subjects… help them to transcend time.”