Here Comes the Light…Again!
A “solar harp” I coined that expression to describe the perceptual ambiance of a building on my university campus that has a multistory... Read more →
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Here Comes the Light
Setting, scene and situation Setting, scene, situation and light at a coffee shop If most Cartier-Bresson’s photographs bear the unmistakable... Read more →
In the Fullness of Life
“The lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out.” (Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, M&S, 2018) The best years... Read more →
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At Yani’s Café
Not your usual eatery To say it all we refer to Yani’s café as the Greek’s. A blend of student and neighborhood hang-out, a blend of family... Read more →
Experiencing “Placelessness”
"Stare (…) pry, listen, eavesdrop (…) You are not here long." —Walker Evans Two benches and two potted plants do not a “place”... Read more →
When autumn leaves begin to fall
“Il y avait quelque chose dans l’air, ce matin-là. Ça ne s’explique pas. ( … ) Ça vient ( …) quelquefois à la fin de l’automne.... Read more →
Three poems on the landscapes of identity
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?” — Lawrence Durrell The sea was one… The sea was... Read more →
Reading two old posed photographs
Foreword In his “Petite histoire de la photographie,” Walter Benjamin discusses the expressive and representational dimensions of photography... Read more →
Reading Isaac Bashevis Singer
The case of the five-legs beast the five legs beast That is not the title of a short story by Bashevis Singer, the well-known Yiddish writer and... Read more →
Humour, art and civility
“At night, noise is a nuisance.” That, in plain English, is what in French becomes an opportunity for a phonetically humorous turn of phrase: La... Read more →
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