Festina Lente — Anchor Editions

Augustus further signaled his devotion by minting an aureus, a type of gold Roman coin, with his personal branding of festina lente . On the side that didn’t include his face — because what leader isn’t going to slap his visage on some coin? — he imprinted the image of a crab hoisting a butterfly. The butterfly represented speed, the crab caution a... See more

- “On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.”