art blog since 2009
Carleton Watkins made photographs that secured business deals for industrialists. He made photographs that offered conclusive scientific proof to geologists. He made photographs that were both commodities and souvenirs. And he even made photographs in order to give evidence in corporate law. Dominated thus by clients, Watkins is presented, in Tyler Green’s 2018 biography, squarely, …
May 22, 2024
An artist and I stand on the summit of Whitehawk Hill, atop the hidden remains of a neolithic encampment. He is dressed in black, and smokes actual cigarettes, as I might have expected. Beyond that I’ve little idea how this meeting, with one of Folklore Twitter’s dark luminaries is about to play out. The setting, …
May 16, 2024
A search for plenitude in the Christmas markets of Bonn, Siegburg and Köln
December 23, 2023
How a family holiday redefined my understanding of modernist literature
October 2, 2023