Memento Mori Ad Astra (Piranisi-Dyson Metaphor)

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Memento Mori Ad Astra (Piranisi-Dyson Metaphor)

The bastardized Latin in the title MEMENTO MORI AD ASTRA (PIRANESI-DYSON METAPHOR) is meant to roughly translate to "remember your mortality - to the stars!"
The idea of contrasting the backward-looking 18th century Italian etcher Giovanni Piranesi with the forward-looking pioneer of astrophysics Freeman Dyson is my nod to the concept of the Greek Titans Epimetheus and his brother Prometheus (with their names literally translating as backward-thought and forward-thought). The piece was done for an exhibit titled 'The History of the Future.'