2018: an office space odyssey (featuring cute little astronaut)

this little guy — posed and photographed by visual poet, mauco sosa — traverses familiar things. where does he/she really go? what does he/she learn about himself, while ensnared in a bag of cigarette filters? what magic does he/she see in the day-to-day objects we take for granted? what does this space explorer teach us about ourselves?

accepting the journey
all images courtesy of mauco sosa

none of the images were photoshopped, according to mauco sosa. instead, they were slightly cleaned up using the editing software built into the smart phone the photos were taken on. find one interpretation of the astronaut’s brave journey in the images below.

risking his/her life to cross a desert made of futon
staring into the abyss 
confronting a strange pillar, perhaps made by other life forms

traversing the grassy yard of a beige planet

finding some light in a lonely situation

coming full circle 

seeing them for the first time

learning their ways

second guessing

reminiscing 

finally ready to go home

existentially evaluating the soul against the convex reflection of an unforgiving mirror

realizing there may not be a home left to go back to

thinking of the 4th dimension 

feeling ensared

giving in

the astronaut was merely a vessel

his unphotoshopped journey lives on