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Lower Your Expectations

List of global disasters and issues such as 'corruption, covid and carbon emissions'. Text tells the reader to 'Lower your expectations and celebrate all the things you've learned to live with'.

Cathy Wilcox
20 August 2021

Cathy Wilcox takes the ‘c’ from celebration and draws up a pessimist’s checklist. Lower Your Expectations brings the year’s headline-making events and issues together in one frame to question our comfort with adaptability.

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