Moon PartyAndrea Tarman

Art meets possibility

Our future
on the Moon.

Two people. A few flowers. Earth in the distance. What might we carry with us when we make a life beyond it?

Explore the painting

An invitation to wonder, through Moon Party by Andrea Tarman.

Moon Party, Andrea Tarman’s oil painting: two astronauts share a table with flowers on a pink and blue lunar landscape. A domed home and the distant Earth appear behind them.123
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Look a little closer

Some of this imagined world has already begun.

Choose a detail. Follow it into a real discovery or a possible future.

01 The flowers02 The home03 The Earth
Already happened · 2016

A flower bloomed above Earth.

In January 2016, a zinnia bloomed aboard the International Space Station. Astronaut Scott Kelly helped care for it. The flowers on this painted table have a real cousin in orbit.

Meet the real space flowerSource: NASA’s Veggie experiment
In development · A future possibility

What makes a place a home?

NASA is studying habitats for future stays on the lunar surface. They would have to provide air, protection, and a controlled environment. The little home in the painting opens another question: what would make it feel like yours?

Imagine everyday lunar lifeSource: NASA · Living and Working on the Moon
A real change of perspective

Home becomes the view.

Apollo 8 photographed Earth above the lunar horizon in 1968. In Moon Party, that distant blue world hangs above an ordinary human moment. Look back at it. What do you notice now?

See Earth from the Moon
Earth above the lunar horizon, photographed during Apollo 8

02 · Lunar life

Beyond the first footsteps.

A home, a garden, a place at the table.

Life on the Moon
An orange zinnia grown aboard the International Space Station

03 · Space garden

Beauty made the journey.

The true story behind a flower in space.

A garden beyond Earth