FRACTURES OF
A BLUE DOT
The image above is one of my favourite photographs. It is a picture of Earth, taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 6 billion kilometres.
Our planet is the bluish-white speck inside the brown band. Carl Sagan, who came up with the idea, later named it Pale Blue Dot.
Whenever I frame a tiny human-being within a broad landscape, instantly this image comes to my mind - and Sagan’s poignant quote on it.
So, all pictures you see here are somehow inspired by the Pale Blue Dot; documenting and reminding us our insignificant yet beautiful lives.
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
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