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"...the 2022 invasion, coinciding with the end of the COVID pandemic, brought forth slippery jargon intended to make sense of the long contemporary: the new normal, the vibe shift, the revenge of the real."

"1381.

I suppose the time will come
Aid it in the coming
When the Bird will crowd the Tree
And the Bee be booming

I suppose the time will come
Hinder it a little
When the Corn in Silk will dress
And in Chintz the Apple

I believe the Day will be
When the Jay will giggle
At his new white House the Earth
That, too, halt a little--"

--Emily Dickinson

Future dusk, detailed oil painting, francis bacon, bridget riley.

"Although we generally experience ghosts as given to us, it is we that give ghosts to places." --Michael Bell via

Fanmo Jimte. Into the present.