The photograph above is from the astronomy picture of the day, a website presented by NASA that I look at regularly. I know very little about astronomy, but I find the idea of the otherworldly very beautiful, and the photographs often visualize this nicely, though rarely do they ever show people, as this one does. The image is not meaningful to me because it contains a figure, but rather because this being looks so unreal and out of place in it's landscape, ungrounded, as I often feel. The environment appears cold and barren, yet also inviting in the solitude and quiet I imagine there, away from all other things.
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