Bummed that today's technology hasn't lived up to the sci-fi promises of yesteryear (world peace, teleportation, orgasmatrons)? So is Scott Listfield. "We're living in the future, and it is pretty freaking weird," says the artist from his outpost in Somerville, Massachusetts." But maybe not weird in quite the way we thought it was going to be." So, kind of how backpackers tote along a (usually kidnapped) garden gnome to cameo in every vacation snapshot, Listfield paints an astronaut into scenes that range from the apocalyptic, "I wanted something that could function like an anthropologist — a bit reserved and off to the side," he says. "He's really an explorer." The artist shares his character's post-millennial alienation: "Sometimes I feel like the astronaut all day long."
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