Sosa At Coors
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AK has brought two American icons - the moon shot, and baseball, together, making a visual pun on the classic idiom of "Moon Shot," for a very long home run. In a way, sports has become the modern religion, or driving force in US culture, especially since cable television and internet coverage can make someone in Sammy Sosa's position a household name. In this respect, Sosa becomes a modern explorer, expanding the scope of the sports world, and creating his own palce in history through hitting a baseball. AK has played with this idea by equating the moon landing with Sosa's batting prowess, which is apt, since the Sosa/McGwire home run race is probably as memorable to this generation as the moon landing thirty one years ago. As time passes, stories of where we were when man landed on the moon may be replaced by stories of how we saw Sosa hit the ball a country mile; that's country as in USA! For more images that play with American iconography, I'd recommend Edward Hopper. His work is not strictly historical, but it has a consistent quality of style and subject matter that is quintessentially American.