This was originally inspired by the lines in “The Stand” by Mother Mother:

“But it’s so damn cold.

Sure for the human race.

But for the planets and the stars.

And everything else and Mars.

It’s like paradise, spread out with a butter knife.”

Made me think of a really desolate cool planet, but there was nothing exactly wrong or bad about it other than the fact that we humans can’t survive there. It may seem lonely or boring, but that’s just how it is.

Anyways, so I thought it was interesting, the idea of something that people often view as horrible and disgusting- the whole alien part of the formerly human astronaut, as just how it is, there’s no right way for something to be.

That was sorta the basic sketch but then it came to the fork, that’s where it could be some kinda of metaphor for the effects of human colonization or something but what if the alien simply was curious? With no way to determine wether it is positive or negative to see the litter there, it finds the plastic fork odd likely because of the bright shade of red alone.

So in short this kinda turned out to be some weird symbolism for how there’s nothing purely positive or negative as there’s always a different side to the story. The cooler colors represents the native, natural state of the planet and it’s bare ecosystem, while the latter is rather whats alien to it.

Have fun trying to figure out whatever I mean by all of that because it’s patchy even for myself.