The Architecture of Memory
We are all built of layers, like stone foundations that have forgotten the hands of the masons who first set them. There is a quiet dignity in how a structure holds the dark, refusing to let the night swallow its history. We carry our own internal…
The Architecture of Silence
We often mistake stillness for an absence, a hollow space where nothing happens. But silence has a weight, a texture like velvet pressed against the skin, or the way snow gathers on a pine bough until the branch bows in a gesture of prayer.…
Posing Spider by Bashar Alaeddin
In Aug/Sept, 2011 I went on a 4 weeks photography and conservation volunteer program at the Thanda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. We lived in the camp-site photographing and looking after the Big 5 animals. I saw this jumping spider when…