天下為公
All Under Heaven Is for the Good of the People

“Last year, just days before our shared birthday weekend, I received a text message from an unfamiliar phone number: ‘Benji in hospital. Come soon.’”

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All photos and illustrations by Lisa Lee Herrick

bête noire

“For 22 years, Monarch — the last California grizzly bear in captivity — never stopped trying to escape from his cage. (….) Lately, I can better imagine the same wildness that the bear may have felt, with my feet pacing my now too-familiar floors of my apartment, the days and weeks having passed with irrelevant chronology. A long footnote in an already difficult year.”

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