The Earth Beneath Our Feet
We often speak of the city as a finished product—a collection of glass, steel, and planned infrastructure designed to facilitate the flow of capital and labor. Yet, the most profound human geographies are those that remain unfinished, where…
The Breath of Winter
The season holds its breath.
Everything slows. The pulse of the earth retreats, pulling inward, gathering strength beneath the weight of the frost. We mistake this stillness for an ending. We see the white, the cold, the hardening of…
Hasankeyf Frog, by Mehmet MasumThe Weight of Small Things
There is a quiet, persistent arrogance in how we measure the importance of a place. We look for the grand architecture, the towering stone, the echoes of empires that left their signatures in marble and mortar. We assume that history is written…