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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: 'Shakespeare in Tehran' by Stephen Greenblatt
"A twinge of disappointment is built into the fulfillment of any desire that has been deferred for too long, so it is not surprising that my experience of paradise, in the form of the Bagh-e Fin, was a...
View ArticleRecommendations: Wherever Magazine
I'm very interested in travel; it is, broadly speaking, the subject of my doctoral dissertation. And most of my own writing is, I suppose, travel writing. I tend to say "writing about place" or...
View ArticleRecommendations: 'ISIS to Exhibit Floating Pavilion of Art Destruction at...
"We are tapping into the increasingly experiential and embodied nature of aesthetic experience. Everyone is talking about the potential for art to go viral, and we know how to do that better than...
View ArticleRecommendations: 'Songbook' by Alex Soth
These photographs by Alex Soth, currently on show at San Francisco's Fraenkel Gallery, are really great.
View ArticleRecommendations: Isabel Martinez at Paris Fashion Week
I'm absolutely enamoured of Isabel Martinez's photographs of Paris Fashion Week, which have been published as a slideshow for W Magazine here. If you're not able or inclined to flick through over a...
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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