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“deus est mortali iuvare mortalem.”

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“For a person to help a person, that is god.”

Pliny the Elder, Natural History II.18

Over 100,000 ceramic wares from two Chinese shipwrecks, 1500 meters deep in the South China Sea. Discovered in May 2023. Ships dated to the Ming dynasty, 1506-1522

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Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.

- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)

Oda Mayumi Ancient Sea, Nautilus, 1986 Color screenprint on paper; titled, numbered, and signed '…44/45…Mayumi' in pencil along the lower margin; matted. 34 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (87.1 x 64.8 cm) sheet 38 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (97.3 x 64.8 cm)

I say: Please. Let this spell grow legs. Let my sisters’ names grow long as their hair. Long as they need to. Let their names rattle the night air with their incessant lungs. Let the sounds of their names burn blue in the night,

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Prayer for the Untranslated Testimony

Lucy Liu on what she hopes people take away from her art

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather