Contemporary artists Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson (of China and Denmark, respectively), have created Moon, a new art project that exists online and allows public users to participate and contribute their own ideas. Visitors to the site are greeted by an illustrative rendering of everybody's favourite space rock which acts as a blank canvas to leave your mark on; and in doing so creating and continuing conversations with others around the world. From afar, these marks appear like the craters and scars of the Moon’s surface as viewed from Earth, but zoom in and they take on a more human feel, revealed as hand-drawn figures and words.
“Creativity defies boundaries,” Weiwei and Eliasson state in their introduction to the platform. “Ideas, wind, and air no one can stop.” The artists go on to say that Moon exists with the aim to bring users closer to those around them as well as the universe, by choosing what to share and how to share it - creating a positive outcome that transcends geographical and political borders and is truly a sum of its parts.
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