It seems to have changed.

The Livro de Criação ⎯ Família emerges from Corre, bebé! by Ary Zara & Gaya de Medeiros, bringing together the traces of a process created through many hands. Thoughts, images, desires, and affections come together in this plural object, this imprecise archive.

This book inhabits uncertainty: is it a mourning for what could have been, or merely a naïve desire for the future? A lament for the child who will not be in our arms, or, in fact, a slight sense of relief running down the spine with each breath in? Perhaps it is the place where the future is still being imagined: where shared expectations, questions, and gestures give shape to what has not yet arrived — and may never arrive.

Meanwhile, it feels like the end of the world. Who will fit into this supposed tomorrow?

A creation that shifts the idea of family and brings it closer to an ongoing collective movement of connection and reinvention of this ancient idea.

It may not be a child, but it seems to be.