The Red Tulip by Ajit Chouhan
This picture, "The Red Tulip", was taken during the Pella Tulip festival in Iowa. Pella, Iowa's Tulip Time festival, also celebrated in early May, began in 1935 to celebrate the town's heritage. It is a three-day event that features street washing…
The Architecture of Memory
In the nineteenth century, the French poet Baudelaire walked the streets of Paris with a specific kind of hunger. He was a flâneur, a man who wandered without a destination, letting the city reveal itself in fragments of light and shadow.…
The Architecture of Longing
We carry our histories like lanterns, swinging them against the dark to see if the path ahead still holds the shape of what we once loved. Memory is a strange, nocturnal gardener; it prunes the sharp edges of grief until only the soft, glowing…