Emerging Refractions

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Digital collage using a Hubble image. I became a bit obscessed with the Hubble telescope and the development of the James Webb, things were a bit shit here, artwork stalling, work boring, Trump had landed and brexit was in the pipeworks so i started learning about energy and light, how spectrometers work, the sheer vastness and variety of the universe as we know it, our inflated sense of importance (a lot of people define "end of the world" as the extinction of Humans) and the dogma that nature was made by some batshit old guy in the clouds (who watches you masturbate) for our bidding, rather than us being a part of it. We are blessed whether it be by devine purpose or simply choice circumstance. I don't believe in organised religion, i believe in us, pyramids, temples, cathedrals were made by the hands of humans and more importantly so were boats, tunnels, bridges, aquaducts and sewers. Most religions say we were borne in his image, should we not strive to be as he? Should we not rebuild and maintain our Eden to restore his faith for this planet is unique, we need it more than it needs us, we live and we die yet still it will turn, our span a mere blink of the eye. The majority of the elements that comprise your body were born from the final roar of a dying stars heart*, what is a better story than being born from a sun, an object worshipped as devine since we clambered down trees and unbowed our spines. The image behind is the collision of 2 galaxies are known as Caldwell 60 (or NGC 4038) and Caldwell 61 (NGC 4039). The pair of galaxies are classified as Ringtail or Antennae galaxies due to their strange shape. They can be found at a distance of 65 million years away from Earth, within the Corvus constellation. I love the shimmering clouds of pink and red cosmic gas and flashes of light as new stars are born to challenge the darkness. In some cases, the view can be affected by rogue streaks of dust that hide certain parts of the vista. The brown is from the cores of the old galaxies mainly of older stars swirled with filaments of dust, i thought it juxtaposed nicely with the image of a human emerging from water as all known life beyond it did, lungs bursting with a need for life, bringing light to dark and air to lungs. We are part of something big here. Losing our fear of knowledge, of the question, the realisation that the beauty in the easy question is merely superficial and pulling on the thread of the seemingly chaotic may reveal the beauty of some systematic order whose scale we previously thought unfathomable. No matter the strife we face and stress we burden upon our shoulders, try to remember the scale of what we know and of our part in it, to live, to continue the march, to leave what we found better for those to follow so they can march further and most of all to protect what we search the universe for, the thing that laughs at the values of our antiqued shitshow of an economic system . . . Life . . .Life and the spinning rock that sustains it. We won the lottery, lets not let the egotistical nutters blow it all on a rigged spin in roulette. Tax the churches and corporations to fund healthcare and education, theyre not special, if they change now they may last long enough to be eaten by the sun along with us mere humans in a couple of billion years. Whose god is it anyway ya daft spanner?