It’s not every day an astronaut lands in The Pas. But then, Dr. Roberta Bondar was never the kind of astronaut who stayed put once gravity reclaimed her.

She’s bringing with her a cargo not of moon rocks or meteor dust, but of birds frozen in flight. Her exhibition, opens November 27 at the University College of the North, and it might be the most beautiful argument for humility you’ll ever stand in front of.

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The images are vast and small all at once — high-resolution photographs taken from space, the air, and the ground, tracing the fragile, impossible routes of birds that live on the edge of extinction. Their migration paths, when seen from orbit, look like brushstrokes across a planet that’s both miraculous and indifferent.

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