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VOID
Stephanie Lane Gage
artwork writing design

Printed A p r i l 2 0 1 3

1: 2: Untitled, stone lithograph, 2012 3: quote from Carl Sagan 4: Containment #1, digital collage, 2013 5: Disclosure, writing, 2012 6: photo via NASAs Mars rover, 2012 7: Infatuation, monoprint, 2012 8: 9: Moon, stone lithograph, 2012 10: quote from Neil Armstrong

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I woke up today, from a lifelong dreamless sleep. Amongst a vast sea of black and the tiny pinpricks of stars, I saw the Earth. A blue marble, floating halfway in the light of the sun, the small purple moon its only companion. I should have been in awe... but I felt a fire. An anger, a resentment. The sight was sickening.

I HAVE AN INFATUAT I O N

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.