The Friction of Being
The smell of damp earth after a sudden monsoon shower always brings me back to the feeling of grass beneath my bare feet. It is a sharp, green scent, thick with the promise of growth and the cooling of the soil. I remember the sting of running…
Greenlandic Drying Rack by Jan Møller Hansen
The photo is taken in the town of Uummannaq in North-western Greenland. During the summer the weather in Greenland is dry and often sunny. The weather is perfect for drying cloth, and the air is the cleanest in the world. This photo shows a…
The Weight of the Current
In the nineteenth century, the great cartographers often left the edges of their maps blank, marking them with the phrase 'here be dragons.' It was a way of acknowledging that the known world is merely a small, lit circle surrounded by an infinite,…