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| A Ducks Escape From The Mundane into the Incredible 18" by 24" |
For all of us who have sometimes felt there might be little alien inside our head
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A beautiful alien who looks like ET inside a mundane ordinary duck.
A beautiful alien who looks like ET inside a mundane ordinary duck.
Enhanced story:
The alien lived in every brain.
No one knew where it came from. It did not arrive in ships or descend from the stars. It appeared quietly at birth, curling itself into the soft folds of a newborn mind like a tiny traveler unpacking its belongings in a strange new world.
Most people never saw it.
But if you could peel back thought itself and look inside, you might glimpse something like the creature in the painting: a great circular eye, floating in a pale universe of memory and feeling. A long dark beak—or perhaps an antenna—reached inward, listening. Its thin stem-like body anchored it deep within the neural forest.
The aliens called themselves Witnesses.
Their species had crossed galaxies so long ago that they no longer remembered their home. Their mission was simple: inhabit a mind, observe a life, and carry the story back into the cosmic archive when the host died.
Each Witness experienced the world only through another being. They could not speak. They could not control. They could only watch.
Inside Maya's brain, her Witness sat silently as she learned to walk, tasted strawberries for the first time, fell from a bicycle, and later fell in love. Every joy flashed across the alien's giant eye like sunlight across water. Every grief left faint scratches on its smooth silver surface.
At first, the Witness believed humans were simple creatures. They chased things, feared things, desired things.
Then Maya grew older.
The Witness watched her forgive someone who did not deserve it. It watched her cry over a stranger's suffering. It watched her choose kindness when anger would have been easier.
These moments confused the alien.
On its world, before memory faded into legend, intelligence had evolved beyond emotion. Witnesses were recorders, not participants. Yet inside human brains they encountered something impossible: beings who constantly rewrote themselves.
A human could become a different person without changing bodies.
The Witness filled archives with questions.
Why did humans dream? Why did they create music? Why did they imagine futures that did not exist?
And perhaps most puzzling:
Why did they spend so much time trying to understand themselves when an alien was already there, watching?
One evening, when Maya was seventy-eight years old, she sat alone beneath a sky full of stars. Her thoughts drifted toward childhood, toward lost friends, toward mysteries she would never solve.
For the first time in her life, she sensed a presence.
Not a voice. Not a sound.
A feeling.
As though an enormous eye had blinked somewhere deep behind her own.
"Have you been there all along?" she whispered.
The Witness could not answer.
But in that moment, host and observer became aware of one another. The alien saw itself reflected in Maya's consciousness, and Maya glimpsed the quiet companion that had traveled beside her since birth.
Neither understood how this connection had happened.
Yet both felt the same thing:
Loneliness ending.
When Maya died years later, her Witness unfolded from her brain and rose into the darkness between stars. It carried every memory—every laugh, every mistake, every ordinary morning that had seemed unimportant at the time.
The cosmic archive expected a report.
Instead, the Witness sent a single message:
Humans are not specimens.
They are stories.
And after living inside one, I am no longer only a witness.
Far away, in countless worlds, billions of other aliens residing in billions of other brains received the transmission.
And for the first time in the history of their species, they began paying attention not just to what humans did—but to what it felt like to be human.
The universe, it turned out, had hidden its greatest mystery inside every mind. And it had been looking out through our eyes all along.
Title : A Duck's Escape from the Mundane into the Incredible Size : 18" by 24" Materials : Acrylic and Oil Stick on Canvas Price :
Artist : Katheleen Mitro
Signed bottom right : Kathy Mitro
- ArtistKatheleen Mitro 1953 - American
- Creation Year2007
- MediumAcrylicOil Stick Canvas
- Movement & Style
- ConditionExcellentDimensions
24 in.High x 18 in.Wide
Gallery Location
Daytona Beach, Florida - Number of Items1
- Reference NumberSAE876592
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