This is a close-up of a mostly-acrylic and glow-in-the-dark-paint (for the stars) on paper painting of a sculpture that I was planning to construct from found- and custom-made objects while I was in college. The sculpture was a terribly ambitious prospect for me at the time (although the painting was easy); I had acquired a copper cryogenic flask that I wanted to drill holes in and insert a high-intensity light source, to create my own planetarium-style star projector, and supplement it with a scanning cathode gun from a TV set, shining onto a phosphor-coated ball (both attached via a vacuum sphere, seen on the right side of the image), held together with a custom fabricated metal body, mounted onto a turntable apparatus….
It went on and on. Lights and synchronized motors and magnets pulling big ball bearings, maps of imagined planets and star systems, recorded sounds, you name it. There were dozens of sketches, several painting, and a few parts collected. Good ideas, good memories, limited funding.