Sea otters, Sitka Sound, Sitka, Alaska, USA
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Sea otters
Officially called Enhydra lutris, and unofficially known as the cutest creatures that float, the sea otters in today’s image can be found in Sitka Sound, Alaska, in the Unites States. Groups of either males or females (sometimes with pups), are appropriately named rafts. Male rafts tend to be larger and can number more than 1,000 individuals. Their buoyant bodies are like literal rafts, functioning as cradles, dinner tables or any kind of solid surface. That’s convenient because otters spend the vast majority of their lives in the water, even giving birth in the sea.

TOWARDS SOLITUDE
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因艺术追求，也因性情所致，我愿意独处。我只求于片刻宁静中继续生活。唯有如此，方能创作。

For reasons of art and temperament I tend towards solitude. My own desire is to continue to live with a little peace, which is the only thing that still allows me to work.

- 莫兰迪

img: Horst P. Horst, Still Life, 1937
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