impetus

It’s nice if they do like them, but that’s not why I do it. I just like to make things.”

a refining point where art making can become “excruciating.”

adagios,

Jacopo da Pontormo,

Jungian

ever before.

In a world where we are increasingly blasted by the stories of others, retreating to recover our own is more vital than

The Friday Night Experiments (FNEs), safe havens for their laboratory, are often so outlandish that they try to limit how long someone works on them—usually just a few months, so as not to hurt the careers of the lab’s postdoctoral fellows, undergraduates, or graduate students. Geim’s perspective, blunt as you like, is that it’s “better to be wrong