& god, I saw

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— Curtis LeBlanc, from “Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation,” Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation

Leila Chatti, from “Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare”

Shakespearean Wisdom Appears on a Building in Las Vegas in New Sunlight-Activated Installation by DAKU

> Snow falls, and is white; > the falling is a process, > the whiteness is not. > (Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind) > > The game, one would like > to say, has not only rules > but also a point. > (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations) > > No Grandfather, no > Father; no Father, no Tim; > no Tim, no killing. > (David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel”) > > Suppose that I cling > to some rock as a mere means > of escaping death. > (Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons) > > We sometimes say: in > later life I will be a > different person. > (David Lewis, “Survival and Identity”) > > You have an auto > accident one winter night > on a lonely road. > (Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere) > > When I turn my eye > inward, I find nothing but > doubt and ignorance. > (David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature)

Details from illuminated manuscripts. Getty Museum, 2018

“For 35 years, husband and wife team Véronique and Jean-François have been harvesting, drying and selling over fifty varieties of flower on their 7000m² farm in the countryside of Auvergne.”

Pale violet from mussel shells. There is something beautiful about color when you know its origins - it was made in the ocean under the waves.

Flowers exposed to Ink

Prosthetic arm, Europe, 1850 - 1910

When you feel like you want to cry looking at the stars I feel like that when I have certain dreams where I’m in a completely different place with different people as though I’m remembering something so I wake up emotional. Now when i look at the stars i feel whole and i get this warm glow like i am watching a long lost family.

various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)