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At Kew Aquarium, 2015
I haven't been perfect at posting pictures every day recently. I've been in the UK for a conference, and then on Wednesday I'm flying to Canada for another conference. I went to Kew Gardens for the...
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Exhibited at Brussels, 2015
I really loved the labeling of all the plants at Kew, and all the history behind them. This plant, exhibited at Brussels in 1864, was quite close to a plant labeled 'GHOST PLANT'.
View ArticleWaiheke Island on The Island Review
My laptop completely broke yesterday, which isn't at all good, so I can't post any photographs on this blog today, but The Island Review have just published some of my pictures of and paragraphs on...
View ArticleRecommendations: 'I Love Dick', by Chris Kraus
"There's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being,...
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Sylvia Plath on Cambridge
I found a photograph of this letter, which Sylvia Plath wrote to a friend from Smith College, today while doing research, trying to sort documents out on my (now-fixed, luckily) laptop.I think her...
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Queen Street East, Toronto, May 2015
I'm back from Toronto, and my laptop has been fixed. I'm trying to write a complete draft of my PhD, so everything feels a bit hectic at the moment. I loved Toronto, though. I'll put more photographs...
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Google Map Photography: Potash Ponds near Moab, Utah
I can't drive and I also can't fly, so there are many places I can't visit. I haven't been sleeping well lately, and last night at about three am I found these ponds, strangely blue, in the deserts of...
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Walking to the Library in June, Paris
I'm still not really doing much but writing my dissertation, but I walked to and from the Bibliothèque Nationale (Mitterand) today, and it was lovely. Paris has been really sunny recently, and there...
View ArticleRecommendations (and Hesitations): On the Hierarchies of an Australian Strip...
"It’s hard to explain to him how it can be okay, after I’ve told him, fidgeting and angry, about the threat of harassment every time I walk somewhere alone. It’s hard to explain the weird protection...
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Roses at Night, 2015
I've just returned from a trip to the Archives d'Outre Mer in Aix-en-Provence. I'm not feeling well, though, now. I may have caught an illness from the 1920s, locked in an archival box.I took these...
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Recommendations: Isabel Magowan
I've just discovered the photography of Isabel Magowan, one of this year's Yale MFA graduates. Her work is in Danziger Gallery's exhibition 'Lovely Dark,'which closes later this week. I didn't see it...
View Article'How Much Longer Will We Be On This Page?' at Litro Magazine
'How Much Longer Will We Be On This Page?' is now up at Litro USA. I wrote this story quite a long time ago, but I'm still fairly pleased with it. It is, I think, the first piece of fiction I've had...
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The Covers of La Femme de France, 1926 - 1938
I've spent most of the last month working, but luckily work included reading old issues of La Femme de France, a delightful interwar magazine for women. I like the way women are shown on the cover....
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Parc Disneyland, Paris
I went recently, to mark the end of my time at the École Normale Supérieure, to Paris Disneyland.* It was wonderful. I don't know why I'm not writing my PhD about Disneyland — except that, well, I'm...
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Rainbow Roses at Columbia Road Flower Market, London
I took this photograph quickly, with my phone. It didn't even occur to me, at the Flower Market this morning, to buy these roses. I have never bought a bunch of flowers for myself. I'll write...
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Last Days in Paris
I left France on the 27th of July, and so today, it seems, marks a month since my last day there. The last day was a Sunday, and Nick and I spent the afternoon on the Île de la Grande Jatte.* We walked...
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Selgascano's 2015 Serpentine Pavilion
I went to see Selgascano's Serpentine Pavilion today, with a friend. I liked it and, now, a few hours later, I like it even more — because I keep thinking about it and enjoying it and wanting to go...
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London Summer
I spent two months in London this summer; these are some pictures (from my cellphone, again).
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Recommendations: Sophie Calle's 'The Chromatic Diet', 1998
I really enjoyed Art and Food: Rituals Since 1851, the section of the Milan Expo dedicated to art, held at the Triennale. It's a huge exhibition — we had about four hours there, and had to really rush...
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Bakeries, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Bensonhurst isn't pretty at all, but it has a lot of pathos. It's a busy suburb that feels forgotten by the rest of the city. There are dated Italian pastry shops filled with elaborate cakes and the...
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Island Archives
I've recently started a research project into the mythologies and realities of islands in the twenty-first century. If you're interested in updates on work related to this, please email me or take a...
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My Favourite Things I Read This Year
I've been trying, this year, to be a little more self-conscious in reading, to take note of what I read and how I feel about it, what I am learning from it. I've also noticed other people writing...
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