In "Astronauts: Sunset" (2020), Larsen riffs off a 1924 composition by El Lissitzky, taking the source-drawing's lines and abstract forms as a springboard to the process of gradually building out layers of geometric planes to construct figures in space. The resulting paintings each depict a planet undergoing a phase transition with an astronaut floating in the foreground, all rendered in reverse perspective. These vertigo-inducing spaces lack any implicit horizon line, or a reliable vantage point. Larsen seeks to disorient the viewer and destabilize "fixed" perspective, in this case making visible the unseen dimensions of this outer-space narrative. About the sense of uncertainty conveyed in Larsen’s wryly humorous work, curator Veronica Roberts writes: “it is hard not to register the vulnerability of an astronaut floating in outer space [...] to perform whatever his mission entails. While early space exploration was once seen as a thrilling achievement, in 2020, the narrative around space travel has become more troubled. Perhaps Larsen has conjured our future, a time when the Earth is no longer habitable for humans, and the train is making a final round to pick up passengers hoping to rebuild their lives on another planet.”