“Angela Manno’s artwork captures the spirit of the view of the Earth from space and provides insights into cosmic awareness.” — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

Conscious Evolution: The World At One

Conscious Evolution: The World At One is a 13-piece series of mixed-media paintings that combines batik, the ancient medium of textile design, with color xerography and integrates quotations by space explorers, statesmen, scientists, and philosophers on the theme of global unity and individual and collective responsibility for the condition of our planet. 

Largely inspired by views of Earth from space, the series has been acknowledged by many of the lunar and shuttle astronauts as expressing the feelings, hopes, and concerns they have had as a result of seeing Earth from space. 

After a highly successful international tour, and with the support of many wonderful sponsors—including actor Tom Hanks, AXA Space, Xerox Corporation, and Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia—the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum completed collecting this visionary space-art series for its permanent fine art collection in December of 2000. The Museum's art collection has more than 4,700 works, including paintings by Daumier, Goya, Rauschenberg, Rockwell and Wyeth.