Do you think you are a mirror or a window?

“from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Marx-critique of the Gotha Programme

“When you stumble, you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.” — Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

Mindful Escapism
Interactive Sculpture
Visual Meditation
Optical ASMR
Conversation Starter
Philosophical Toy
Timeless Play
Reality Bender
Sober Psychedelic

I have never been fine again, not for a single moment.

I have been exhausted and terrified and angry. I have been overwhelmed and underwhelmed and debilitatingly depressed and anxious. I have been amazed and awed and delighted and overjoyed to bursting. I have been reminded, constantly, by the ache: this will pass; stay close.

I have been alive.

Who am I? A tremor of nothingness, living in a permanent earthquake. Yet for a moment of profound happiness, the spasmodic Earth comes to unite herself with my shaky body. Who am I, now, for several seconds? Earth herself.

—Michel Serres, The Natural Contract

time is of the essence,