
So here is one of our new friends, up close, with the two big eyes and the three small ocelli.

Reduced distance to the unknown is disconcerting, so I turned off color to create the illusion that we are seeing something abstract, not a living being.

As in Julio Cortázar’s short story Axolotl, the question arises who is looking at whom here.

Are we as different to them as they are to us?