(Very little to add, everything still to feel.)
WORK-RELATED NEWS:
This past week I finished sending out the last of the 200 copies of my small book for the springtime We Will Be Close Again. Because I am myself, I made a tally chart of where all the orders were going:
The spring issue of Orion Magazine also began its distribution in this first week of March, which means people have seen and read my illustrated essay on landscape (as of right now, I have not). The last I saw of it was during final proof stages as a PDF, so I’m hopping from one foot to the other in anticipation. While you cannot read my essay online, there are various essays and features from this issue that can be read on the Orion website—astonishing, beautiful reads that would perhaps leave you quietly staring into space.
THIS WEEK I FELL IN LOVE WITH:
A long-standing photography series—‘Eyes as Big as Plates’—by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. There is a dedicated site here, but there is also an overview of the project on Karoline’s website with many more of the photographs.
“We need to learn to see not just with Western eyes but with Islamic eyes and Inuit eyes, not just with human eyes but with golden-cheeked warbler eyes, coho salmon eyes, and polar bear eyes, and not even just with eyes at all but with the wild, barely articulate being of clouds and seas and rocks and trees and stars.”
— Roy Scranton
“... as if she had just discovered something incredible, like a Roman coin stuck in the paw of a kitten or a dragonfly concealed in a loaf of bread.”
— Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want To Know
The end.
I can't wait to receive my copy! :)