Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
"We construct human realities around the things we make and build. We give them names and identities that are bound up with what they used to be, or what we wish them to be, or what we think they’re for." Richard Smyth: An Indifference of Birds.
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." - Thomas Brown, Religio Medici, 1643
"All art can have the power of poetic revelation about the material world - it can reveal the ensoulment of the universe." - Hugh Conway Morris
O Public Road…You express me better than I can express myselfYou shall be more to me than my poem. Song of the Open Road. Walt Whitman.
"When I light the candles in the three Moroccan lanterns, I think of something the artist Roger Ackling said to me, quoting Thoreau: ‘Electricity kills darkness, candlelight illuminates it." Roger Deakin, Wildwood
"Shapes carry weight. We do not look out at the world around us as though all things are equal. We have evolved to register and investigate and prefer certain forms over others in fractions of a second." Sussman, Hollander, Cognitive Architecture.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or
“There are places and things which make our thinking possible, and leave our thinking changed.” - Hugh Conway Morris.
I see the pattern of the universe everywhere: in the marbling of a countertop, in the bobbing flower heads of a summer meadow, in the dust kicked up by the flick of a fish tail. Apparently, the patterns that appeal to us most are those that have natural forms. We...
✨ Wondering why I ask for support?
An Anxiety of Memberships