Lips curled away from teeth,

planet insect, 2022

photograph by Kira Cates

Bark beetle pathways. De Danske Barkbiller. 1898. e-rara

Heeyoung Noh (Korean, 1995) - Insomniac (2026)

Elephant seal flipper

photographs by Wayne Suggs

pikmin 1 promotional render, 2001

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inspired by the artemis ii mission, and pictures of mineral moons that circulated at the time (partially due to a misunderstanding that these pictures were unmanipulated or lightly-manipulated photos from the mission itself). my language group uses the phrase "'nüüm na waalt" to talk about how we all have the right to learn and speak our language - i thought about this phrase then because i think the mission, being the first of its kind that a lot of us are even alive to see, reminded many people that all beings share some kind of a relationship with the moon. i felt inspired to design my own mineral moon with raven laying claim to it (despite it being too big for his beak and wings). i likened the colours in those pictures to a representation of its spirit - the spirit of a thing that belongs to us all (especially in the context of space travel's historic entanglements with US imperialism and the colonial aesthetic aspirations of right wingers).

photograph by Suzette Van Meter