Look: UAE-based company to carry first artwork to the moon in official mission

Sacha Jafri’s original work will be placed on the surface of the moon, initiating the release of a five-series NFT Charitable Collection.

A painting created by Dubai-based artist Sacha Jafri is headed for the Moon this year — in a first mission of its kind.

Titled ‘We Rise Together, By Moonlight’, the artwork will not only land on the lunar surface, but it will also stay there forever.

Jafri, a British artist, used an aerospace-grade aluminium gold plate as his canvas for the artwork, making it fully resilient to lunar conditions and allowing it to last an eternity on the Moon.

“Our future is not technology, our future is human; with expression and embrace comes our new world, aided by technology but driven by humanity. The placement of my moon-landed artwork aims to reconnect humanity to ourselves, each other, our creator and ultimately to ‘The Soul of the Earth’,” said Jafri, who recently created the world’s largest painting on canvas, which became the second most expensive painting ever sold at an auction by a living artist.

The painting will be placed on the Moon with the help of Selenian, a pioneering UAE company that specialises in the curation of art in space, in collaboration with Spacebit, Astrobotic, and Nasa, through its commercial lunar payload services (CLPS) initiative.

Five NFTs will be launched to commemorate each stage of the mission — from the rocket entering the stratosphere, the Earth circumnavigation, the moon slingshot, the landing, and the legacy of the permanent artwork on the lunar surface.

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