Man in His DOMAIN

With Orbital Relector, the artist has created one of the first-ever space sculptures. What it reflects might change the way you view the cosmos — and your fellow earthlings

ZACH SOKOL

“There’s no such thing as a civilian space program, and there never will be,” Trevor Paglen says with a resigned laugh. It’s early October, and we’re talking in an office at New York University’s AI Now Institute, where the 44-year-old is an Artist Fellow. But lately he’s been spending time in Nevada, working on one of humankind’s first works of fine art to be displayed in the infinite gallery of space. Space is having a moment, in ways Paglen finds both troubling and inspiring: Elon Musk has launched a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket equipped with a Tesla; more than 600 customers have paid upward of $200,000 each for a seat on Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceflight; President Trump has announced his so-called Space Force (designed to ensure “American dominance in space”).…

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Playboy Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2019

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