Two Photographs

I was recently listening to an episode of Radiolab about the Voyager spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 containing a golden record that was embedded with sounds meant to represent the human experience, in case an alien species ever came across the spacecraft.

The episode was primarily about asking different folks what they would include on the spacecraft to represent themselves, and this got me thinking about what I would put on there. Ultimately I settled on two images which mean a great deal to me.

The first one was taken by Edward Steichen around 1898. It's called Woods Interior. The second one I took in 2006, and I never gave it a title.