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I shared a bus ride in Ire­land once with a French man who car­ried more photo equip­ment than cloth­ing. It was 1979 and the bus ran local stops up into Done­gal from Killy­begs. I was on my way to a lit­tle town called Glen­columkille, where I’d spent a time­less week in a cot­tage with six […]

Just how bound up nat­ural beauty is with art beauty is con­firmed by the expe­ri­ence of the for­mer. For it, nature is exclu­sively appear­ance, never the stuff of labor and the repro­duc­tion of life, let alone the sub-stratum of sci­ence. Like the expe­ri­ence of art, the aes­thetic expe­ri­ence is that of images. Nature, as appearing […]

My mother walked every day by the beach and in the sea grass and heather. Her dog ran in and out of the thick heather, chas­ing rab­bits and run­ning down scents that mixed with the bright smell of the ocean. The hori­zon runs long and low. To find dimen­sion and per­spec­tive on these walks, you need […]