Essays


On deception, perception, and the hidden structures of storytelling.

Read essays :

  • On Being Nowhere – On soft fascination, and the rest that comes from asking nothing
  • Red – On the painter Agata Chmielewska, and the one canvas that won’t behave
  • The Palace and the Cube – On a ‘gift’ nobody wanted, a quiet cube, and the strange emotional economy of architecture
  • Under an Etruscan Sky – On lightning, the Etruscans, and the difference between feeling a storm and reading one
  • Caught Mid-Sentence – Notes on suspension, strangers, and what travel does to your sense of self
  • Two Red Petals – On petals, platforms, and the stories we can’t help telling
  • The Fourth Colour – On tetrachromacy, the norm, and the people the test wasn’t built to find
  • Looking Up – On feathers, angels, and what we bring to what we see