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This was his latest artwork, a botanical intervention he called the NeoEocene. He described it as a collaboration with time and place, whose outcome neither he nor any of his contemporaries would ever live to witness, but he was okay with not knowing.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Ours is an age between world views, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated.
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
decayed wood is not old, but has just begun to be what it is.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
A culture that defines itself on striving its way to the future has been forced into the timeless underworld; a place full of ghosts and voyagers, infinite possibility and potent danger. This pandemic has not called us into a heroic adventure, but forced us to descend into silence and darkness and humility.
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
The artist is on a cosmic timetable, just like all of nature.