Bowie's Space Oddity - inspiration for our print 'Sitting In a Tin Can'

Bowie's release of 'Space Oddity' in 1969 was a marriage of a young talent and the event of the first manned moon landing in 1969. It worked well for Bowie, who had been inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey' as the song reached No.5 in the UK Singles Chart.

1969 wasn't a bad year for the American Pop-Art painter Andy Warhol. he was at the height of his powers despite an assassination attempt on him in 1968!

His Campbell's Soup Cans had become a series of works, begun in 1962 that was lauded in the modern art world and developed into a whole catalogue of works including a variety of coloured versions of the cans which had begun in '65 and mirrored his 'Shot Marilyns' produced in '64.

Our print re-enacts the multi-tin effect with the Campbells style cans using the lyrics for Bowie's Space Oddity.

It takes its inspiration from the classic line in Bowie's song; 'For here am I, sitting in a tin can'. Tin Cans, being essentially, the making of Andy Warhol.

The format is set to a print of 24 cans in a 4x6 format, with the entire lyrics of the song fitting into the cans.

Amazingly, it took Bowie another 3 years for his next hit, which ironically was Starman and Major Tom would feature again in the 1980 hit 'Ashes to Ashes'.