Nasser Azam’s Zero-Gravity Art Work

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A British artist traveled to Russia to create art in zero-gravity.

Nasser Azam’s new project, Life in Space, is an attempt to show how bodies can be represented in various stages of motion and was inspired by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. To accomplish this, Nasser and his team traveled to Star City, Russia where they were trained on a specially modified transport aircraft designed to simulate zero-gravity.





On The Vomit Comet

These “vomit comets” have been used by NASA since 1973. They work by “catching” you mid-flight. The aircraft takes off at 45 degrees and flies in a parabolic path that mimics the path that an object would take during free fall. The end result of all these dips and dives is that during each “hump” the plane exerts no g-forces on the objects within it, so that for short periods of time riders seem weightless.

The vomiting part comes from a mixture of anxiety and the fact that during weightlessness your organs are free-floating, which leaves many gravity tourists queasy.

Nasser began each piece with acrylic but he finished them with oil pastels as acrylic’s would have floated away as he was applying them. By the end of his ride, he had managed to complete all his pieces and keep his lunch in place. The art that he finished is currently on display in London.

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