The word “nostalgia” derives from the Greek words for “homecoming” and “grief.” This piece borrows from the visual language of the octagonal feng shui mirror (a protective talisman for the home) and the compass (a magnetic wayfinding device originally invented in Han Dynasty China for divinatory purposes). The auspicious number 8 also appears through the ba gua (eight trigrams) of Taoist cosmology, and the eight phases of the Moon (culturally and linguistically associated with home, family, and timekeeping). UTF-8 encodes these symbols and emoji for the web, allowing them to be displayed here with minimal impact to the file size constraints.