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“Ever expanding human poverty and the ongoing pillaging of the planet are justified in the name of a utopia to be guaranteed by Market Forces, when they are unregulated and allowed to operate freely; a utopia in which, in Milton Friedman’s words, ‘each man can vote for the colour of the tie he wants.’ In any utopian vision happiness is obligatory. This means that in reality it’s unobtainable. Within their utopian logic compassion is a weakness. Utopias despise the present. Utopias substitute Dogma for Hope. Dogmas are engraved; hopes flicker, by contrast, like the flame of a candle.”

John Berger, ‘Some Notes About Song (for Yasmin Hamdan)’

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this is what is happening between us when i like your vent post

[soracities]

“After all, [the world] is on my side. That is, I’m a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Vintage room dividers

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This Buddhist temple in Thailand was built by Buddhist artist Chalermchai Kositpipat in 1997.

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David Spriggs, Tempest, 2009, white paint on layered transparencies inside a display case

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Mark Rowell

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B4SrIZZhba3/?igshid=jg27jc5yglyh

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i see you, somewhere in the distance

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Michael Zuhorski - Eyes Make the Horizon, 2015-2018

Artist’s statement:

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is an insular body of land. The largest freshwater system in the world defines its borders and seeps through its interior, isolating the peninsula. In November 2015 I began living near the peninsula’s north shore with the intention of photographing over a period of several years. The act of looking became insular in sympathy with my surroundings. My practice began to articulate the environment’s effect upon my state of mind and my mind’s effect upon the environment. 

These interactions were guided by the ubiquitous presence of water. I photographed the effects of water upon the peninsula and the wetlands, rivers, and lakes that cut through and enclosed it. I became fixated upon the idea of water as a body – dynamic and distinct from its surroundings yet completely tied into them. This is analogous to the way I understand myself in relation to my surroundings. Eyes Make the Horizon became a means to ask where I end and the world begins. 

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Sleep

Iran-based artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders portraits of peaceful sleepers deeply resting as a part of her ongoing Sleep series. Each individual she creates begins with a gestural line drawing that is then embroidered onto a handmade pillow.

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André Hemer, Day Painting #3 (2018). Acrylic and pigment on canvas. 224 x 152 cm. Courtesy Gow Langsford Gallery.