Lower Your Expectations
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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