hermetic

MIT is an enclave even within the hermetic world of Cambridge academia—a place where complex, bleeding-edge ideas spawn from sterile labs and filthy dorm rooms.

It was a marked contrast to Rossen’s current life, which is largely hermetic and domestic, confined to the four walls of his home.

Previous generations didn’t have the chance to taste some version of the hermetic bliss millions of us were exposed to over the past five years.

Once a place where friends and family entered through perpetually open doors, the space becomes hermetic and airless when curtains are drawn to hide the men who have come to disrupt this idyllic refuge.

Courogen, a journalist and visual content director based in New York, reached out countless times to May’s “people,” a small clutch of confidants that keep a tight lid on 92-year-old May’s hermetic world.