Dutch Island, Japanese Port: Life Around Dejima During Isolation
If you stand in Nagasaki today, you can walk across a stone bridge and find yourself, quite suddenly, in the Netherlands. The air might smell […]
If you stand in Nagasaki today, you can walk across a stone bridge and find yourself, quite suddenly, in the Netherlands. The air might smell […]
We think of clothing as fashion, as status, as mere covering. We rarely don’t forget it as silent diplomacy, as tangible cultural syntax, or as […]
There’s a memory that lives in my bones, one that surfaces whenever town life becomes a continuing, steel hum. It’s the memory of a path […]
We walk through a forest and see trees. We gaze across a prairie and see grass. We look at a coral reef and see a […]
There’s a world that exists just beyond the edges of our daylight perception. As we retreat indoors, drawing, there’s a world that lies just beyond […]
We walk through forests, gaze across meadows, paddle through wetlands, and often we see… scenery. A backdrop to our human dramas. But below the rustling […]
Forget the marble halls and tailored suits for a moment. Step outside. Listen to the sunrise refrain not as birdsong, but as a complex community […]
We spend lifetimes building walls. Walls of ordinariness, of ambition, of cautiously built identities. We polish the veneer of control, convincing ourselves the world bends […]