“Distance To The Moon” by Tiny Cartridge reader ImaginaryThomas. He’s selling this framed 8.5 x 8.5 collage for $20 (plus s/h) at his Etsy shop.

There’s a lot of Daniel Benmergui’s fantastic game I Wish I Were The Moon in the piece, but ImaginaryThomas says his primary inspiration, like Benmergui’s, was Italo Calvino’s short story “The Distance of the Moon”:

“[The collage is] based on the theory that the moon is progressivly moving farther away from earth at ~3cm/year. Calvino writes of a time when the moon was close and folks would take a boat out when the moon was full and would climb a ladder to the moon and collect [its] cheese. The main character, ’Qwfwq’, falls in love with the captains wife and tries to get left behind on the moon with her.

If you haven’t played I Wish I Were The Moon yet, you should! Even if you’re super busy, you can likely reach one of the its endings in less than ten seconds!

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