Dream… /

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Dream... Believe... Blaze... — The Triptych United

The three works united as a natural triptych, where Dream, Believe and Blaze align as one continuous lunar homage to vision, unity and shared human endeavour.

The Eagle & Distant Earth

The lunar module rests on the surface, while Earth hangs small in the vast distance, a quiet reminder that one step on the Moon was always a collective human journey.

Central Anchor

The central Moon piece, hand-scorched and carved through the Phyre Etching process, acting as the gravitational anchor of Dream... Believe... Blaze...

Reflection on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin stands on the lunar surface, with Armstrong visible in the visor’s reflection, a quiet, gilded moment where presence, perspective and human achievement converge.

Lander Detail

Close-up carving of the Lunar Module, emerging from the scorched surface through Phyre Etching, where patience, pressure and countless hours reveal the machine that carried belief all the way to the Sea of Tranquility.

he Golden Landing Mark

Detail of the gold pin marking the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility, the smallest intervention in the piece, yet conceptually the core, a literal and symbolic seed of Dream... Believe... Blaze....

Carving the Lunar Surface

Close detail of the Moon mid-process, Phyre Etching revealing craters and terrain through scorched wood, where the image slowly emerges from the burnt surface through hours of carving and focus.

Visor Detail

Close-up of the gilded visor surface, where Armstrong’s reflection emerges in gold, a tiny but profound echo of presence, perspective and the moment humanity looked back at itself from the Moon.

Aldrin Emerging

Detail during the carving of Aldrin, where scorched wood and careful knife work gradually reveal the figure from the burnt surface, one cut, one texture, one decision at a time.

Dust of Formation

Residual wood dust from the Phyre Etching process, where the scorched surface is slowly cleared away and the image quite literally emerges from burn, texture and time.

Scorched Beginning

The surface is first scorched to create the darkened ground, a necessary starting point where fire lays the foundation for the image to later emerge through carving.

Blaze… /

During the innocence of 2019, excitement rocketed around the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. To commemorate such a profound universal human achievement, an homage was launched through my own dream and endeavour.

Dream... Believe... Blaze... became the starting point of the wider Apollo-inspired series that would. expand, deepen and broaden the more it was worked on. It moved beyond a single historical moment and into a personal and collective one. Envisioning something that may have always existed in thought, but required belief, effort and time to bring into reality. Why don’t we walk on the Moon? Aiming for it, and together WE did it.

Sparked into a flame years earlier by dear friends, a process emerged called Phyre Etching. Not strictly fire, and not strictly etching, but a slow, deliberate act of scorching and carving wood over vast hours until the image reveals itself from the burnt surface. That duration, labour and patience became a quiet homage to the tens of thousands of people involved in the Apollo programme, and the sheer human persistence behind it.

Like the best laid plans of mice and Moon men, the anniversary itself was not the true destination. As the work continued, and as the world shifted dramatically, the piece expanded in meaning. It became less about a single landing and more about aspiration, unity and endurance, mine, and everyone’s. It might have been an American flag driven into grey dust, but it was mankind that brought it there.

Completed over Christmas as a natural triptych, Dream... Believe... Blaze... now stands as the conceptual ignition point of an ongoing series exploring exploration, belief and the long gestation of ideas. A tiny gold pin on the central Moon piece marks the Sea of Tranquility landing site. The smallest detail, yet the most important. A golden seed of ideas, tenacity and unity.

Materials: scorched wood panels, pure gold leaf, acrylic ink.

Dimensions: 3 x 100cm x 100cm

Dream... Believe... Blaze... (2020)