You pay very close attention your body because it doesn’t know how to lie to you, and pay very little attention to your mind because it is lying to you all the time
I just saw perhaps the coolest art installation I have ever heard of.
This is a perfectly normal pin. On the head of it are 2.417 quintillion angels, give or take a few billion.
Joe Davis and Sarah Khan, the artist behind Baitul Ma’mur, (House of Angels) encoded the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” onto synthesized DNA, and then used that DNA to coat the head of a pin. According to some traditions, any time Subhan Allah is said or written, it creates an angel. With DNA being as dense an information storage medium as it is, this single pin has more created angels on it than have ever been born from human throats across all of human history.
And then in a fucking genius move, the art installation takes the form of a functional vending machine, loaded with an impossibly large quantity of angels. For $25, which goes right to the artists, you can buy a pin. I’m thinking about taking mine out of the test tube sometime and encasing it in resin to turn it into the highest % angel by volume earring ever worn, but that’s a project for the future.
There isn’t much else I can say that isn’t said by the documentation accompanying the exhibit. The photos aren’t the BEST quality but they should hopefully be mostly legible.
As of right now this installation is located at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and if you’re ever in the area you should totally check it out
2,300-Year-Old Plush Birdfrom the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact
This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.
This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.
i have Holes In My Brain, so i’ve almost certainly forgotten some i loved (every seivarden moment is my favorite moment!!! i just love Seeing Her!!!!) but doing my best:
4. all her sopping wet cat moments in justice. when she watches breq kill four people & complains that she’s cold. babygirl,…
3. in the beginning of sword, when she keeps asking breq abt sex. and breq is like wow… she must just want to sleep with Someone. which is more of a Breq Moment than a seivarden moment but i love how pathetic she is abt it.
2. at the end of sword, when seivarden brings in mercy of kalr and saves breq’s life, and then says she’s “look[ing] forward to being reprimanded.” that’s embarrassing for her. and when she IS reprimanded & seivarden is very Obviously in love with her. like, she asks breq if she KNOWS (“Do you see what Ship sees?”) & breq is, per usual, absolutely oblivious re: being loved & cared for. Peak Comedy. seivarden is having the Most Time Ever and breq is like - how odd, i wonder what’s up with her.
1. and i think it’s everyone’s favorite seivarden moment, but after she falls off the bridge and asks breq that if that was something she’d do for someone she hates, what would she do for someone she loves?? (plus every conversation they have about ship favorites. Ships Hate Her!!!)
this is missing a #5 because i’ve only just started my re-read of mercy and i want room to add one more when i come across it.
