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I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, before I was born, so I don't know if people really believed we'd be living in space in the future. In many ways, the year 2001 failed to live up to expectations. And yet the world today, filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iMacs, and Hip Hop videos, is strange in ways unimagined back when 2001 was still the future.

The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present.

Scott Listfield