ad astra

 

This mural is from PS 20 on Essex where I taped a meeting of Community Board 3. Very curious image, the teeming immigrants of the lower east side flowing beneath the opened arms of "Mother Mary Comes to me," but it was the saying in Latin that caught my eye, a variation of my home state's motto, which Wikipedia now tells me, is a variation of the original quote: "through difficulties to the stars."