Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance/Absolution/Assimilation/Abdication 

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*“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction. He knew all of this, I think.”*

(Annihilation)

Digital artwork by <n>Beaming</n> featuring a quote from poet <n>Walt Whitman</n>.

A decayed nitrate film still from <n>The Turconi Project</n>, an archive from the collection of <n>Davide Turconi</n>.

*“I’m not an answer,” she said. “I’m a question.” She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn’t yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.”*

(Acceptance)

A view from inside <n>Keiths Tower</n> in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Digital artwork from <n>Zancan</n>'s <n>Garden, Monoliths</n> collection, featured in the <n>ATLANTIKA</n> virtual museum.

*“Is there something in the corner of your eye that you cannot get out?”*

(Acceptance)

*“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”*

(Annihilation)

<n>My DNA #1</n> (2017), a tintype created by artist <n>Michael Koerner</n>.

*“I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.”*

(Annihilation)

The <n>Iniciatic Well</n> at the <n>Quinta da Regaleira</n> estate in Sintra, Portugal.

*“One day, he believed, she would take him with her, and he would become the streak of light, have secrets no one else could ever know.”*

(Authority)

*“Never skip a step. Skip a step, you’ll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you.”*

(Authority)

*“There must be things you would have done differently,” Severance says.”*

(Acceptance)

<n>Portal of Thistles</n>, a drawing by <n>Terra Keck</n>.

*“Listener and listened-to had begun to be colonized by some outside force but had not yet realized it.”*

(Authority)

*“I’ve been trying to remember this place,” she said, almost plaintively. “I love it here, but the entire time I’ve felt like it was the one remembering me.”*

(Authority)

<n>The Water</n>, a 2017 installation by <n>Hiroshi Sambuichi</n> in Copenhagen. Photo by <n>Rasmus Hjortshøj</n>.

A painting by artist <n>Trevor Henderson</n>.