Ars Vivendi, like all things that begin, was once only an idea: a quiet desire to share the beauty of art, philosophy, and literature with the world through t-shirts. For a brief time, that idea found a body and a name, and lived as a website.

But ideas need more than birth; they need care, patience, and endurance. Sometimes an idea is worthy, yet those who carry it are not strong enough to sustain it. We could have given it more. We are aware of it.

Today, Ars Vivendi reaches its end because of us. We wanted too much while building too little, in a world already crowded with imagination. What slowly undid the project was not hostility or failure of vision, but our own inability to give it lasting form. In this, we failed Ars Vivendi—and, inevitably, ourselves.

To those who may have witnessed, perhaps without much expectation, the brief existence of this idea, we offer our farewell, without claiming certainty of a return.

— Ars Vivendi