Foreground: Kenneth Emig
material: steel and Found Objects
Background: Joyce Westrop
Title: Universe
Material: steel
Dimensions: 366 x 366 cm
Year: 1999 - 2008
photos: Joyce Westrop
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.