The work The Pink Astronaut | Milk depicts an astronaut dressed in a full pink spacesuit, standing firmly and squarely in front of a shop shelf containing only milk. The image is a powerful metaphor for parenthood, with the astronaut symbolising the parent who finds himself in a sometimes unfamiliar and challenging world, just like an astronaut on a new planet. The bottles of milk in the background, refer to the child.
The pink colour of the spacesuit plays a central role in the work, giving it a softer, more playful look, while still representing the resilience and protective nature of the parent.
The work depicts the balance parents have to find between supporting their child. The milk bottles represent the constant need to feed but the repetition in the bottles is also in the constant routine that you have to offer in the child's life.
Conceived by Lianne Louise, visualized with AI.