Never Better

In collaboration with Jess Day

The Never Better was a space ship for day dreaming space cadets. Jess Day pilot and myself navigation. The main missions were to travel peacefully and visit friends. We wanted to visit some lone women in space for a catchup like Jun Swan from the Science Ninja Team aka Gatchaman, Princess Leia, Gabrielle Burnham, Amanda Grayson on Vulcan, Gamora, Vina on Talos IV, Cee (Prospect), Ellen Ripley and Jones, Barbarella, Scrapper 142 (Valkyrie), Ryan Stone, and Aurora Lane. Some other destinations included the Mos Eisley cheese festival, Milky Way Art Expedition, Station Trance Galaxy dance party. The ship received various accolades including fourth place, nice try and various participation awards. Because the trips were neither warlike nor extractive, there wasn’t a need for attack weapons or surveying tools. So nearly all the instrumentation was tactile analogue vague and lacked the capacity for accurate measurement. There was also a lack of a unified colour scheme and many colour gradients to reflect the friendly artistic nature of the mission. We collected posters from the events we attended and used them as wallpaper. The ship exterior featured an art cannon and long range communications. It travelled by rifts in space time – jumping in short burst trips. More like a car than a place to live. It’s main propulsion system was the Sprite Drive, featuring a blue/green gradient. The communications screen saver was full of pictures of our adventures camping, attending various parties, space walking, and visiting mars.

This ship was celebrated in a sculptural replica built for Other Suns exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre.