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Naomi Oritz, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, 2020 (Book cover painting by Naomi Oritz)

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Javier Ramirez, Tres Tristes Tigres, 2023

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For this series of large-scale charcoal portraits made between 1956 and 1962, the German-British painter Frank Auerbach drew his sitters over and over again, erasing the image after each session so that only a ghostly outline remained. He repeated the process until he felt he had captured the person’s essence; often the paper would rip. “What is so captivating about the drawings is how Auerbach could elicit such complex responses using just a piece of charcoal and a stick of chalk,” says curator Barnaby Wright, who has brought the portraits together for the first time for an exhibition. “We are so saturated by superficial images of people that these drawings offer us an enriching alternative, something deeply human and full of vitality.”

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/13/frank-auerbachs-early-charcoal-portraits-look-deep-into-human-life-in-pictures

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Sancintya Mohini Simpson, The Plantation (detail), 2022

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SERENITY, Forough Yavari, 2021

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Officials from Britain's Ministry of Agriculture prepare slaughtered pigs and cows for the incinerator after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was discovered there in 2001.

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Annika Koops, Production Still, 2021

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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Frida Kahlo

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...they can't cancel the spring.

David Hockney

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Justine Varga, 'Contusion', 2018-19

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Elizabeth Newman has described a longing to see hear or touch what is well and truly missing as a possible motivation for all art making — and as such a solution to an impossible situation — like attempting to materialise something invisible

Maggie Brink, Artist Statement for Reading Room 2020

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