Astronauts in Tin is part of a photographic series exploring the world of cosplay and its surreal tension between fiction and reality regarding identity - revealing how characterism functions as both a form of escapism and a tool for self-expression. The project reflects on how identity is constructed and constrained within society, and how cosplay acts as a form of resistance against normative structures. By reclaiming space and bending the boundaries of so proclaimed adulthood, it exposes the line between reality and the surreal - showing that both are, ultimately, conceptual.