ABOUT LANTINE

Where stones meet stars.

LANTINE comes from Lanting — the Orchid Pavilion, where in 353 AD forty-two scholars sat by a stream and wrote about how short life is.

I'm not doing anything like that. But I liked what they were doing: looking up at something very large, and using it to work out where they stood.

That's what a birth date is, really. A fixed point you can measure from.

Five stones, composed from your birth date. No two are the same.

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