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“We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living. Don’t you want it, to be impregnate with all that light? And what will happen if you are?”

– Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

James Baldwin

Aerial view of a volcanic crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo credit: Chris John

Illustration from РАДИО (Radio) magazine, 1962 issue no 8. The text says something like “space repeaters,” I think in relation to radio relays. The orbiting object resembles Sputnik-3, launched in 1958. The specific radio tower by Moscow on the map is the Shukhov tower.

Elizabeth Gadd, we couldn’t tell the ocean from the sky. 2012

Ace Double books from the late 50s and early 60s from my grandfather's collection.

each novel is doubled with the opposite cover.

Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.

— Olivia Laing, from Funny Weather