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In 2012, Tom Sachs went to Mars. The other NASA was taking too long to do it, so he and his team of astronauts assembled enough simulacra to do it themselves. In that process, he made 494 Samsonite 2250 folding chairs, each custom painted and serialized with a unique cultural hero, for an audience to partake in the mission sequence. Then he sold all the chairs for a thousand bucks each. Well, the chairs sold out, and the stragglers on eBay are many thousands of bucks each. So in Tom Sachs spirit, I built my own. I didn’t have his studio’s precise shade of Krylon Industrial 2108 Banner (Safety Red), so I wrote out my own bar code and put it on what I did have. Now there’s 495 Tom Sachs NASA chairs. If Tom Sachs went to Mars by building a space program, I went to Tom Sach’s space program by building a chair from the beachers. I was there when Tom Sachs went to Mars.