Space odyssey



In February, South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk launched into the sun’s orbit his old commuter car, a 2008 Tesla Roadster. Photos that went viral – of a mannequin dressed as an astronaut appearing to steer the car through space – offered a dislocating perspective of Earth, which the car seems surreally to be speeding away from. Not since Bosch depicted on the closed doors of his famous triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, a ghostly globe adrift in the heavens, has our planet seemed so strangely out of reach.