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The illuminated installation encourages communal calm and hope amid crisis New York-based Ekene Ijeoma – artist, designer, academic and founder of the Poetic Justice group at MIT Media Lab – has delivered an immersive installation in Downtown Brooklyn titled Breathing Pavilion. Consisting of 20 illuminated, inflatable, 2.7m-high columns arranged in a circle, the pavilion aims to provide a sanctuary at a time marked by the continuing crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic racial injustice in the United States. Using computational design, the two-tone columns slowly modulate in bright...

Early on in this memoir the author comments on Taiwan’s rich flora — that it came from many places, washed ashore or was borne on the winds. Two Trees make a Forest in general takes up this theme with regard to Taiwan’s human population, and proceeds to investigate the author’s ancestors though reference to the nation’s trees and climbing plants. Jessica Lee’s grandparents moved to Taiwan from China along with the influx of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) forces in 1949. They subsequently moved to Canada, via Wales, though experiencing a strong desire to return to Taiwan in the...

In this scattershot series, we’ll be delving “too greedily and too deep,” prying gems out of the glorious rough that is the extended legendarium of Tolkien’s world. This includes drawing on The Lord of the Rings itself, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and the History of Middle-earth (or HoMe) books. Previously, on Tolkien’s Orcs… I concluded in part 1, which covered the monstrous hoi polloi of Middle-earth as presented in The Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, that Orcs are driven to mayhem—and frankly, the will to do anything substantive— by the powe...

Plymouth's plush waterfront link is finally here after years in the making The £6million Millbay Boulevard scheme has transformed Bath Street alongside the Pavilions Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now A brand new modern walkway linking Plymouth city centre and the waterfront is now just weeks away from completion after being spoken about and intricately planned for years. Brand new pictures taken by PlymouthLive and the council show off the £6million Millbay Boulevard, a brand new urban landscape that's emerged down at Millbay. The construction work is due for completion ...

Red lights, forgotten celebrities and life in 'up and coming' Millbay Once a glitzy celebrity-spotting area, Millbay has seen it all. Now it's shaking off its reputation as a magnet for "hard drinkers, prostitutes, and druggies" and welcoming in a new dawn Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a big story in Plymouth again with our daily newslettersInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other relate...