Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville: Hazel Larsen Archer’s photo of Elizabeth Schmitt Jennerjahn.

Eunice

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home, Tryon, NC

Tryon, NC. The sun was shining. The air was sharp and still. The house was sad…

Greenland. Day 10: Disappearance.

When you go away from the people you love, they worry you may not come back — and you worry about them worrying. When you go away, you worry they might forget you, go off you, finally realise all your flaws and eccentricities and doubts are too much to take — and you…

Greenland. Day 16: Lake Tasersuaq

Lake Tasersuaq

Greenland. Day 20: Manchester.

Rasmussen: ‘What do you think of the way men live?’
Shaman: ‘They live brokenly, mingling all things together; weakly, because they cannot do one thing at a time.’

“He didn’t know how he should feel about anything or anyone and wondered if there might be a remedy. To which…

Greenland. Day 14: The Seal.

Early morning. You wander down to the harbour. The sun’s shining. The water’s a million times more than blue. For a few moments, there’s absolute, pin-drop, quiet. A sound grows towards you: a murmur, a moan, a groan, a rhythm, a wave, repeating, plaintive, metallic, lost. You…

Greenland. Day 5: When Alignments Are Ergative.

Greenlandic, of course, is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. And, as we all know, its morphosyntactic alignment is ergative.

Today I have mostly been listening to people…

Greenland. Day 15: The Quarry, The Lake And The River.

The Quarry.

Greenland. Day 12: Top Tips

If you’re in Greenland, please remember the following:

1) If it’s been snowing for hours, it’s -327 degrees and you go out, wear gloves.
2) If you want to take photos when you go out without your gloves, remember to make sure the battery’s in the camera. 

Thank you.