from The J. Paul Getty Museum

andalusite in schist

Excerpts from First Nations artist Ruth Cuthand's Trading series of traditionally beaded micrographs.

Photo : Jennie J. Koch

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Crazy lace Agate under the microscope!

Catalina Cheng, “YOU ARE GAY AND CHINESE”

BOB HICOK

My younger brother was afraid of thunder, lightning. My father bought a recording of storms, put it on the stereo, and rocked on the love seat with my brother over and over, until the sound meant comfort, warmth. Much later, my brother became obsessed with meteorology and dreamed of becoming a weatherman. When I finally connected the early fear with the later passion, we were looking down at my father in his coffin. Not my father but his body. More like an echo of his flesh. No weather on his face. I’d seen him often in a suit but never wearing a vest. Pajamas would have made more sense. The soft rain of the talking all around us was a cocoon I wanted to live inside. I heard the metronome of my heart and thought of Quakers waiting for silence to open its mouth. Of the hope just below the surface of the phrase, keeping time. - Bob Hicok

Chinese jade carvings: corn, grapes, cabbage, and bok choy. (cr 簇拥烈日的花)

Ken Shiozaki (Japanese, 1972) - Dream Flower (2004)

Yoko Doi (土居陽子)

Cicada. Omoda Seiju.