The Weight of History
I am generally suspicious of grand interiors. They are designed to make us feel small, to remind us of our fleeting nature against the permanence of stone and iron. There is a heavy, performative quality to such spaces, a demand that we look…
The Geography of Consumption
We often mistake the city for its monuments, its grand boulevards, or its skyline. But the city is more accurately read through the small, intimate rituals of consumption that occur within its borders. Every plate served is a social document,…
The Weight of Stone
Seneca once remarked that while we are busy planning for long lives, we often fail to notice that life is already passing us by. We build monuments of stone and mortar, hoping to anchor ourselves to the earth, believing that if we can make…