This view of the outer rim of Jezero Crater’s 150-meter-high rim was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, day 1,505, or sol, of the rover’s mission to Mars. The brightly colored rocks exposed along the slope, running from the left center to the right center of the image, belong
This essay as told is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, founder of Swil Arts Studio. She left her job as a software engineer at Google, spent a year traveling with her partner, and discovered watercolors in Thailand. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Warsaw in the