“The Pale Blue Dot”
Acrylic mixed mediums on canvas. 62” x 48”
The Pale Blue Dor, Earth.
"That's Home. That's us."
The Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1. As the spacecraft was departing our solar system, it turned for one last look at its home planet. “
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 Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994.
