If Picasso can have his blue period, then Smelle can go through his moon phase. I recently read a borrowed-from-the-library Kindle book entitled "The Moon" by Oliver Horton, 2019. He made a point about how our moon, for all of history, has been in the background. (see Smelle paintings 54 and 60) I know how that feels. Whenever a group photo got taken, someone always barked, "Tall people in the back." Been there done that. But on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts changed our point of view. Their photo has come to be known as "Earthrise". For the first time the moon got to be out front.
The author rambles on about how science fiction writers have long been conjuring trips to our moon and near-by planets. Fixtional colonies are established. Ores get mined. Human nature prevails. Good vs evil. That got me to reading Robert Heinlein's "A Stranger in a Strange Land", 1961. A human couple has a baby on Mars, he grows up and he comes to earth a generation later with superpowers. How cool is that!
Somehow I got off on a tangent of designing my own moon suitable fo 3D-printing. The result was a golf ball, of course I tried solid, but the one pictured is hollow, printed as 2 domes, with a tongue and groove super-glue joint. It bounces about 95% as high as a real golf ball.
The only painterly problem was how to make a realistic star-filled universe. Instead of brushes made of hair, I used 3 different sizes of metal stylli (plural of stylus) with spherical tips. Dab the pallette / dab the painting / repeat. And instead of placing the stars at random, I gridded the board and faithfully copied the arrangement of the stars that I saw in the photo. Random it ain't.