Never Seen, Never Will

When I was trying to think of something that I know exists but have never seen or probably won’t see in my lifetime, I was stumped. After some thought, though, I thought about space. Yes, space as in the thing that surrounds our universe. To me, this was a good example of something I know that exists, but I never will see for myself because there is only one way upon entry: a spaceship. Spaceships are super costly to make and require years to fund and construct. While it would be cool to look at planet Earth from a space view with my own eyes, chances are it’s never going to happen in my lifetime.

Space is composed of many things that we are familiar with such as planets, comets, stars, moons, and even other universes! It’s also easy to picture what space looks like since there are images taken by humankind and satellites. Some people have even drawn pictures from what they can imagine or have come up with pictures of their own from various information platforms. While I may think I know what’s up there, I could be totally wrong. Who knows, there might be aliens or even other galaxies watching us right now! Everything we know about space (the facts, pictures, and other findings) is what we have discovered from other people. This idea reminded me of the idea of “remediating.” Remediate means taking an old form/medium and recreating it to fit a new form. This made me think of seeing drawings of images in space. How we know what space looks like is from other people’s research, images, and discoveries. To remediate what space is, I created a poster to represent how I imagine space looking like. I put Earth, stars, a moon, a comet, and even a tiny Saturn in the top right corner of my mini-poster. After creating my mini-poster, it reminds me of images that others might create as well. Most people would include common characteristics about space that I included myself. While I don’t remember where or when I saw my first image of space, the image stuck with my head. Because of that, I could remediate what space looks like to me without specifically looking at a picture as a side-by-side comparison.