Doug Young (Brooklyn, NY)
Mission Control, 2003
Wool and linen rug
48”h x 96”w

Doug Young’s Mission Control is a wool and linen rug the artist wove himself depicting the men of a 60s-era Mission Control seated at their computers. Young’s use of a delicate antique process that exudes softness and warmth is in stark contrast to the image of the modern and hypermasculine world of NASA and the space race. The artist intends this juxtaposition to be humorous, but he also wants the viewer to consider how earnest it is in its realization, because of the sheer painstaking effort required of Young to create a rug such as this. In this way, Young sees the effort itself as more important to identify with, rather than the piece itself.

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