Officially titled Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, delivered by JFK on September 12th 1962. The speech would later be known for the famous line “We choose to go to the moon”. JFK delivered a vision, an idea, which was so complicated and at the limits of technological advancements. The words were an inspiration and continue to resonate today. Sourcing both the reading copy and official transcript via the JFK library, I asked the question of how can I use the words to create a space collage composition? 

Using the reading copy, I integrated both the large font typed records with the handwritten edits, this strange almost mathematical composition was created. Recently I saved the National Air & Space museum tweet pertaining to an image of Alan Bean, Apollo 12 astronaut, walking on the moon. The words are inspirational, but the vision was achieved. I integrated the two forms together with the aim of using the words to create an abstraction or representation of the moon surface.  

Sourcing more images via National Air & Space museum twitter, an image of Apollo 14 mission coming to an end when command module “Kitty Hawk” landed in the Pacific Ocean. I collaged the parachuting command module with the speech transcript, showing gravity pulling the module back to the Earth.