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SpaceX Starship Flight 14 launches at SpaceX Starbase in Starbase, Texas on September 28, 2026.<\/span>Ronaldo Schemidt\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n

On Thursday, <\/span>a group of men dressed like extras from Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> erected a giant statue outside Elon Musk\u2019s company town of Starbase, Texas: a 50-foot bronze rendition of the Titan Prometheus. Building a godlike figure in honor of the world\u2019s richest man reportedly cost the sculptors,<\/a> of the French outfit Atelier Missor, $1 million of their own funds.<\/p>\n

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The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.<\/p>\n

It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.<\/p>\n

People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.<\/p>\n

But the time has come\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/JkQbTGV1My<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Atelier Missor (@AtelierMissor_) October 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a \u201cclassical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.\u201d\u00a0Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision<\/a> of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vend\u00f4me in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and\u2014per previous versions of their website<\/a>\u2014spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n

In a now-deleted mission statement<\/a>, Mohaved appears to allude to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests as one of the reasons he started his foundry. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked to see ignorant people tearing down statues,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThese fools who weren\u2019t even in the same league as those they were trying to destroy. These ungrateful people who had never done anything in their lives.\u201d <\/p>\n

Across their social media channels, the foundry now posts about bringing back the West and bemoans modern artistic sensibilities. \u201cMake art so epic it will raise the birthrate,\u201d they say. Nor have they forgotten their particular commitment to white, European manhood.<\/p>\n

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After first arriving in the United States last year with help from the Peter Thiel\u2013linked 1517 venture capital fund<\/a>, the men of Atelier Missor wasted no time ingratiating themselves with the American right. They welded an 11-foot bronze George Washington for Trump\u2019s \u201cFreedom 250\u201d celebrations. (They also, judging by their posts, appear to have acquired cowboy hats.)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot just imagine a view of the world and impose it,\u201d Mohaved reportedly said in June of 2025. \u201cYou have to submit to the dream that unites us\u2014the dream of Western civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, his foundry has spent the past year flirting hard with Elon Musk. <\/p>\n

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Dear @elonmusk<\/a> <\/p>\n

We want to build a statue of Prometheus in titanium and offer it to Starbase \u2014 a gift from the people, in gratitude for pushing humanity forward.<\/p>\n

Let’s make Starbase the most spectacular city, as it will be depicted as a true milestone in history books. pic.twitter.com\/jtRnDjIi3j<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Atelier Missor (@AtelierMissor_) June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

But the statue\u2014which now hoists its torch into the sky and teeters, plinthless, on the ground\u2014is not on Starbase property. Nor is it made of titanium, as its sculptors initially planned. Instead, it sits by the side of a Texas road about ten miles away<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the hollow, welded-together Prometheus went up overnight on Wednesday. Neither SpaceX nor Atelier Missor immediately responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Rewarding their months of desperate posting\u2014and real, actual statue construction\u2014Atelier Missor recieved curt recognition from their idol on October 1st. <\/p>\n

\u201cNice work,\u201d Elon posted.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n