This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #7021 and artworks of Chashink. In this case we tried to pay tribute to one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The story of his life is full of tragic and admiring events. Despite one could say that the whole world was against him, he managed to earn a name of the most respectful scientist in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. He was a rocket scientist and one of the fathers of rocketry theory. He foresaw rockets, artificial satellites, orbital stations, and spacewalks long before they became a reality. To begin with, we should tell a bit more about the biography of Tsiolkovsky.

Konstantin was born in 1857 in Russian province. In the winter of 1868, Tsiolkovsky fell ill with scarlet fever and became almost completely deaf. He found himself cut off from the world, constantly receiving ridicule, and considered his life "the biography of a cripple". Konstantin tried to study at a regular school, but did not succeed: "I did not hear the teachers at all or heard only vague sounds", and no indulgences were made for a "deaf boy". Three years later Tsiolkovsky was expelled for failure. He never studied at any educational institution and remained self-taught.

His father gave his son money and sent him to enroll in Moscow, in the Higher Technical School. Konstantin reached Moscow, but did not enroll in the school. Instead, he enrolled in the city's only free library and delved into independent study of the sciences. Tsiolkovsky's poverty in Moscow was monstrous. He did not work, received a pittance from his parents and could eat only brown bread. He had no luck in love, either. Due to extreme poverty and the constant busyness of his projects, he had no maidens. "It was time to get married, and I married her without love, hoping that such a wife would not twirl me, would work and would not prevent me from doing the same. This hope was quite justified," he wrote of his wife.

Since 1932, Tsiolkovsky had a personal physician assigned to him - it was him who diagnosed the scientist with an incurable disease. But Tsiolkovsky continued to work. He said he needed another 15 years to finish what he started . But, unfortunately, he did not have that time.

However, he influenced space exploration like no one else. In his works, he described the process of human entry into space, possible devices for this, the operation and characteristics of an artificial satellite and, most importantly, defined the mechanism and method of reaching outer space by man - a multi-stage rocket with jet propulsion already in 1903 (in the same year the first flight by airplane took place).

In this punk we reflected people's image of the conquest of space in the early 20th century. That is we added many elements. They look like a cluster of meteorites in the orbit of the planet. But at the same time they resemble a halo around the face. This is a tribute that scientists pay to K. Tsialkovsky due to his contribution. The Punk itself reflects the weight Tsialkovsky’s figure in development of space exploration. Thus, the Punk is a bit bigger than all other Punks. Circles around his face symbolise natural and artificial satellites, since usually dark figures mean something not alive (artificial) in suprematism. The choice of suprematist artist for this Punk was quite obvious - Ilya Chashnik. He was a contemporary of Tsialkovsky and a lot of his artworks were inspired by the theme of space, space-stations and a man in space.

So we chose the basic elements from his works in order to make it look more authentic to the aesthetics of the 1920's. It is interesting how color palettes matched both in Chashnik's "space" artworks and our idea to show this Punk all in white because Tsialkovsky spent much time working in his lab in a white coat.