Orbital (Samantha Harvey)

“It wants what it wants and hopes what it hopes and needs what it needs and loves what it loves. So strenuously unrobotic is the astronauts heart that it leaves the earths atmosphere and presses it out - gravity stops pressing in and the counterweight of the heart starts pressing out, as if suddenly aware it is part of an animal, Alice and feeling. An animal that does not just bear witness, but loves what it witnesses.”