Stray Astronaut

  • Claudia Morales
Illustrated book based on the short film LOVE and its main character, Captain Lee Miller, the stray astronaut, which contains photographs of an astronaut printed in 3D around a new narrative text that goes deeper into the original story.
It is said that everything remains silent when you hear the noises of the demons. “It is the noiseless orchestra of the Death.” And it is that these demons are beneath the sound waves, buried by specters. Imprisoned where the astronomy of their structure extends to the Cosmos, a jail that resembles a symphony of screams. This explains the absence of sound in outer space. They only can dance to their tune.
Void.
Meanwhile, the astronaut Miller was sleeping. He wasn't in that deep sleep that keeps in rest those who are limited by their own vertices, but the unstoppable, sudden rise into Dreamland. “Every breath he takes has a deafening noise.”
A powerful loud cry that made the spacecraft and both soul and body reach such height thereafter the sky was ripped and torn from beginning to end. Who knew what could fall from the other side, and who would clean such mess.
Thus both man and craft descended the galaxy like a chunk of sugar sinking in a glass of icy lemonade. Then like sparkles, the inhabitants of the Earth thought they were stars for their iridescence, typical of effervescent matter. The so-called Perseids.
The scene dealt in a net of constellations that braked the fall of Briggs, and once on them, the astronaut felt like hovering on a shoal of electric fishes swimming in the lemonade from the other side of the sky whose air no-one has ever breathe. These fishes were nothing else but comets and asteroids whose path defined the effect of translation of the whole celestial bodies. This way the planetary orbit was determined: always elliptic, never circular.