My Trip to Outer Space, 2019, collage, 41 x 88 in. / 104.14 x 223.52 cm.

My Trip to Outer Space, Erin Dixon, 2019, collage, 41 x 88 in. / 104.14 x 223.52 cm.

When I was six, I believed I had traveled to outer space, due to confusion about what happens when one is put under general anesthesia. It was a powerful realization at a young that there was a great unknown, and that was terrifying. I had no control as a child as we moved across the world and back