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Illustration by Kay Nielsen (c. 1918–1922).

Erika Lee Sears (American), Night Lights, 2026, Oil on birch wood panel

Lapis lazuli ornamental plate, Achaemenid Empire, 500-400 BC

𝔱𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

Avon Cape Cod Heart Trinket Box

Sigalit Landau - Malka, 2018 (Shoes suspended in the Dead Sea)

Medium: Silver, gold, natural pearls (pinctada maxima), and diamonds

Ross Bleckner (American, b. 1949), Invasion, 1990. Oil on canvas, 213.5 x 183 cm.

I am writing again.  Feeling the sun on my back as I bask in the brittle anonymity of my thoughts.  While Beliar comes and goes shedding light on my determination I am forsworn to remain alone.  A singular discipleship whose sole objective is transference.  When the night becomes porous and the shore is seen.  In the solitary hour, as Antar, Oreb and Zeeb, planets seldom witnessed in the gloom of burning empires, align.  Conjunction above the grave of this world breathing new life into the stratosphere.  Even as everything else asphyxiates around me, oxygen continues to flow from my pen in guttural bursts …

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Louise Bourgeois