Arianna Adamopoulos’s Aevum dissects her research into the theory of mortality salience into the contradiction between restriction and liberation. Interested in the blaring opposition of the inevitability of death and human need to tamper with life, Arianna approaches this topic in a simple way, so as to allow deeper exploration into it. This duality seeps its way into most people’s lives, usually unknowingly; resilience becomes a tool to shape the way we face life despite the perpetual reminder of our ephemerality.