{"product_id":"apollo","title":"Apollo","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fragment traveled farther than almost anything you will ever touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt crossed the darkness between worlds. It approached the Moon. It returned through fire to the Pacific. And decades later, it found itself inside a work of art beside driftwood, abalone, concrete, foam, and discarded house paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNothing enters a place without leaving something behind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAPOLLO: The Things We Leave Behind\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting meditation on wonder, memory, creation, destruction, and humanity's ancient desire to reach beyond itself. Through one extraordinary artwork and the materials embedded within it, the Moon and the ocean become mirrors of one another-and the human footprint becomes both miracle and warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about exploration. But beneath that is something more intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe need to matter.\u003cbr\u003eThe fear of disappearing.\u003cbr\u003eThe longing to belong to something larger than ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you read, you will discover how ordinary matter can become relic, how beauty can emerge from damaged and discarded things, why the ocean may have been humanity's first outer space, how exploration can quietly become extraction, why the idea of a \"limitless\" frontier is so dangerous, and how the marks we leave behind reveal what we believe about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will be asked to see waste differently.\u003cbr\u003eTo see the Moon differently.\u003cbr\u003eTo see art differently.\u003cbr\u003eAnd perhaps to see your own life differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause healing does not always mean erasing the evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes transformation means taking what has been broken, abandoned, carried, scarred, or left behind-and allowing it to become part of something larger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is no away.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is only what we touch, what we transform, what we release, and what remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy this book. Read it slowly. Stand inside its questions. Then look again at the world you thought you knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may never see a footprint the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46233112150063,"sku":"9798173520012","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_cd7ca4b7-f71d-4bff-88e9-a174870ff8ee.jpg?v=1789992054","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/apollo","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}