In his painting ‘Tuxtuac Over Lilienthal’ (2007, pigments on canvas, 210 x 157 cm), Buckler combines precisely transferred structures (using digital microscopy and CAD-cut masks) of a thin section (made on his state-of-the art Struers equipment) of the Tuxtuac meteorite (Ordinary Chondrite, Typ LL5) and a subtly painted part of a sentence of an NASA/Apollo air-to-ground communication and a picturesquely cited Otto Lilienthal (based on photography from 1896). Mythology becomes reality…

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