One day, our children's childhoods will be spent playing explorers in worlds far from home, where play will not be a game but a struggle for the survival of our species.
Hello my dear Hivers and Aliens, I wish you a very happy Monday and I hope the past week has been a great one for you.
Today is time to post a new piece of art on our beloved platform 
This time, I'm bringing you a different spring concept, based on renewal and transformation. At the same time, it's framed within the space theme, which, as you've seen in previous posts, is one of my favorites.
The work is called "Little Space Explorers," and its protagonists are two little anime-style astronauts exploring a new world.
This time, I imagined my protagonists as two children born during a long-duration space mission, and who would ultimately be responsible for occupying and colonizing the new world, as their parents would have grown old during the journey.
I drew some inspiration from some current theories about travel to Mars, as some assume the journey could take 60 years or a little longer, which means that (at least as I imagined it) the astronauts would have to reproduce during the journey and raise a new generation, who would ultimately begin the work of installing habitats and modules on the red planet.
That's why my protagonists are tender children, and in this case, they had to be a boy and a girl, representing the men and women of tomorrow who will be responsible for populating this new world.
From the perspective of spring, children represent renewal, which in this case refers to the new generation rising stronger than the previous one. And here it's good to remember that the history of humanity could be defined by many successions of parents and children, each adding their contributions so that the next generation can build on them and build something even bigger and better.
Renewal is a constant in the cycle of life, but in the human case, it goes beyond one season to the next. For us, it's not just about the end of one year and the beginning of another, but rather the beginning of a new life, and with it an entire generation that will last for decades and, during these decades, will be able to do more than other generations.
In this regard, we can see how, in the last 40 years, we have made more progress than in a century. Our secret as a species has been renewal, nurturing and strengthening a new generation; this is our spring.
Now let's talk about transformation, also expressed in my protagonists. These children, who, as I say in the description "are playing at exploring," are actually in a phase of change, a phase of transformation where they will cease to be children and become a man and a woman.
In the concept of this work, it implies that these two tender children will one day grow up and know that their mission is not simply a game, but the colonization of a new world, and that they themselves will be the parents of future generations.
Sometimes we don't realize it, but besides childhood, it's playing at being adults; it's also the innocent understanding of concepts that we will later have to understand more seriously.
Childhood is a process of transformation where we learn through play. Or have we forgotten the many times we played at marrying a friend, or when girls played at being mothers, or boys played at being mechanics?
How many children have played at being doctors and become doctors as adults?
A child's games can be more serious than they appear, and this is no coincidence; it's because childhood is transformation.
And finally, I need to talk about the background of the work. In this case, I didn't want it to be too overpowered, but I couldn't help but include waterfalls. Because the best representation of life is through water, because without this liquid, flowers and plants can't grow, nor can life last.
At the same time, I dedicated a large amount of space to the sky, because you certainly can't create a work with a space theme without looking up at the sky, much less including it.
In this case, most of the background is occupied by a large moon, which represents a luminous hope and the uncertainty of what will become of these young people. The moon also represents the promise of new life, of future generations. We could say that deep in the background, it's a symbol of fertility, representing what will happen to these children in the future.
Finally, I dedicated a small, but no less important, space to an element that carries great weight in this representation. On the right, we can see a small planet. If it looks like the Earth to you, it's no coincidence, because it is indeed the Earth.
In this case, I represented it as small, barely perceptible, but it won't go unnoticed by the expert eye. Here, the planet Earth represents what was left behind: older generations and past life.
While spring is renewal, renewal is also leaving something behind. To renew, you have to change, and to change, you have to leave behind. Thus, the caterpillar becomes a chrysalis, eventually becoming a butterfly. Cubs stop playing to become tigers, and children leave their innocence behind to become adults.
This work is my own work, created with the help of the Night Cafe app. I subsequently applied some edits and modifications to better adapt it and achieve the goal of expressing my concepts.
It is already published on NFTShowroom, and only one edition is available. Here I share the link:
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/sembrandounpais_premium-ai-arts_little-space-explorers
Without further ado, I bid you farewell, very pleased that you were able to visit my blog and I hope you enjoyed my work. Thanks to the entire community 
Goodbye, see you in the next post, and I hope you have a beautiful, prosperous, productive, and excellent week, my friends.