I finished this memento mori of an astronaut's skeletal hand entwined with alien-botanical specimens on the eve of the autumnal equinox, borrowing the Latin expression, βAd Astra Per Asperaβ from Earth's air navigators. I see it as a beacon and a warning: Through Hardships, To the Stars!
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in Alien Botany, Prints