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Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are a lot of jokes about the difference between 'white hats' and their spooky counterparts.

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For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

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Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

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Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

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In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

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I have to admit that I'm not very good with grammar. They taught grammar in elementary and high school, but I went to public schools, so I never really learned it.

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'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've made to the world around us. Having said that, every person in the world would have done the project differently, so in that sense, I guess it bears my creative stamp.

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On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

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If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

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Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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