Eva Baron

6 days ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

Around the world, countless folkloric stories concern the origins of the sun and the moon. In Korea, that folktale involves a brother and a sister who, as they scramble to escape a wild tiger, discover an iron ladder sent down to them by the Sky God. As they ascend toward the sky, the pair transform into the sun and the moon, and, soon after, the tiger is punished, his blood spilled over a sorghum stalk.

1 week ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

When she first embarked upon her solo journey across the United States, in January 2021, Michelle Jader expected to only be away for a year. San Francisco’s skies were painted orange from wildfire smoke and the COVID-19 pandemic was still raging throughout the city by the time she left. Feeling “emotionally and creatively caged,” the artist ended up on the road for two years, visiting art communities, staging pop-up photo shoots, and creating her own paintings across 36 states.

1 week ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

Out of necessity, disaster and innovation often go hand-in-hand—at least that was the case for  Colonel James A. Gray back in 1966. That fall, while retired in Italy, he witnessed Venice’s largest flood, where water levels rose more than 6 feet higher than usual and, in turn, destroyed countless historical buildings and the renowned pieces of art stashed inside them.

1 week ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

On the small island of Jersey, nestled in the heart of the English Channel, summer has already taken over the Jersey Zoo. But alongside the zoo’s typical blooms, something more unexpected has sprouted there as well: a colorful meadow with almost 5,000 flowers, each composed of eco-renewable recycled castor oil and plant fibers.

1 week ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

By the time Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke, and Mano were rescued from the remote Tongan island of ‘Ata, the six teenagers had managed to create a community vastly different from the one in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. They built a permanent, continuously-burning fire. They stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree stumps. They fashioned a makeshift guitar from a piece of driftwood, half a coconut shell, and six steel wires. They caught feral chickens and tended a garden.