Brittany Nelson conceptual practice explores how science fiction, and the ongoing pursuit of space exploration, offer venues for the consideration of new social possibilities outside the limitations of heteronormative society. Utilizing analog chemical photographic techniques, historical science fiction and its archive, and visual culture from recent NASA missions, Nelson suggests how extraterrestrial, or non-human actors can function as proxies for queer life. draws on research into science fiction, technological utopias, spaceflight, and time travel, while demonstrating a fluency within 19th-century photographic procedures.