A Satellite View of Nebraska

In the basement of the library, if you go down the curving stairs and take a right, you'll hit a wall. Take a left instead and then another almost instantly. There it will be- A Satellite View of Nebraska, hanging grandly across from the legal books of the General Collection.

Nebraska, from outer space, is alien. A screaming, ruddy red represents a part of the land abundant in energy, or vegetation, while a variety of greenish and blue shades represent the land that is lacking. The colors swirl to make the shape we all have come to know as Nebraska, the shape whose very definite lines on our maps seem invisible whenever we cross into Iowa or Kansas.

A Satellite View of Nebraska says one very important thing to me, and it has nothing to do with vegetation. What we all see makes no difference- it's the places from which we are looking that does. The deep crimsons that converge with blues throughout the landscape whisper perspective, and I hope to remember this for my future seeing.