Fine artist and graphic designer Scott Listfield paints astronauts, and sometimes dinosaurs. Above and below are vivid oil paintings featuring his recurring, watchful but detached, lone space voyager from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott’s narrative in this ongoing series is brilliant. His astronaut protagonist is seen observing and exploring our 21st century culture—emotionless and isolated, walking through an unfamiliar environ of corporate logos and urbanity. Artist statement: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, which was about 8 years before I was born, so I have no firsthand knowledge of how it was received. I do not know if people genuinely believed we’d be living in space in 2001. If we’d have robot butlers and flying cars, geodesic lunar homes with sustainable gardens, and genetically reconstituted dinosaurs helping or eating the human population. But from Lost in Space to the Jetsons to Jurassic Park, it seems that popular cultur...