Janna Levin Instagram – “Being a Chicago kid, I remember very distinctly the first time I saw the sky without street lights. I was on an island off of South Carolina with my parents. My father and I were lying out under the skies, and there were no streetlights on the island. It was the first time I saw the Milky Way. I think I should have known then that I was a scientist.
“I have a strange relationship with the stars. When I look up into the sky, I feel upside down. I have that sense that ‘that’s not up.’ Like I’m falling into that midnight pool. I no longer think of the sky as up. I think of us as floating in space. We are in space.
“I also think about the light touching my eye. That star could be seven light years away. It’s sending light to me. It could be a thousand light years away, but it’s sending me light. My eye got it, and absorbed it, and took it out of the world. But it touched my eye. So I have a visceral sense of being connected to that. As austere and unreciprocated my admiration is of the universe, I definitely feel that.”
—— Astrophysicist and author of Black Hole Blues @jannalevin gets deep in our recent Conversation. It’s also featured in Gossamer Volume Eight: the Space issue, which is on newsstands and available to order now. Photographed by @langstonpalmer in Brooklyn. | Posted on 12/Jan/2023 07:30:55
