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The Great Moon Hoax
Mark Schoon and Casey McGuire are not only associate professors of photography and sculpture, respectively. Together, they hold the distinction of being the only members of the University of West Georgia community to have walked on the moon.
Well, sort of.
In a far corner of the Visual Arts Building on campus, Schoon and McGuire play in their lunar sandbox, experimenting with materials while working on a collaborative project that has been evolving since 2015.
The project –“The Great Moon Hoax: Science and the Recreation of the Artificial” – was influenced by a series of images and articles that ran in the New York Sun in 1835. In that series, astronomer Sir John Herschel was credited for discovering life on the moon while gazing through his telescope on expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
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Mark Schoon and Casey McGuire are not only associate professors of photography and sculpture, respectively. Together, they hold the distinction of being the only members of the University of West Georgia community to have walked on the moon.
Well, sort of.
In a far corner of the Visual Arts Building on campus, Schoon and McGuire play in their lunar sandbox, experimenting with materials while working on a collaborative project that has been evolving since 2015.
The project –“The Great Moon Hoax: Science and the Recreation of the Artificial” – was influenced by a series of images and articles that ran in the New York Sun in 1835. In that series, astronomer Sir John Herschel was credited for discovering life on the moon while gazing through his telescope on expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.