By Bernard Quetchenbach
Accidental Gravity negotiates the tough facet among a naive trust in an everlasting, unassailable flora and fauna and the both naive trust that human existence happens in a few unnatural, extra mediated context. The name refers back to the unintentional yet still significant nexus the place the private meets and combines with the universal—those serendipitous moments whilst the person lifestyles connects to the bigger rhythms of time and planet.
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