Symbology
The Brights' avatar represents a celestial body viewed from space. As there is no up or down or right or left in outer space, the arrangement of planet and darkness and starlight is changeable. Although the symbol is open to the viewer’s interpretation, it is generally meant to invoke transition and a sense of gradual illumination. The intentional ambiguity of avatar is meant to symbolically reflect an important question: Is the future of humankind becoming luminous or more dim? The Brights “wish to take the promising route, whereby the imagery brings to mind a gradually increasing illumination for this earth of ours, an escalation of enlightenment.”.
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