the moon rises over the parthenon in athens, greece (2011)

Erechtheion: Portico of the Caryatids by Vasily Polenov

-Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

It’s difficult to believe you are looking at something in nature. You sense the explosion that vaulted them from the sea. The feeling intensifies as you round the island through the day, the cliffs in their reds and yellows and blues and whites like immense abstract canvasses, encrusted rocks rising from the water stark as Giacomettis, massive white Moore-like forms with curves and ripples and holes. Then you round Vani on the north-western tip and turn into the harbour at sunset, passing towers of manganese and other volcanic rock in black, blue and green, patterned like snakeskin. The island has become a gallery. It is thought that a singer and sculptor named Alexandros, from Antioch, carved the Venus. Milos from the water appears like a monumental act of the imagination, something an artist would do if they were a god. Then, at twilight, you touch gently down at Adamas, the taverna lights calling you in. - Timothy O’ Grady for CN Traveller

Milos, Greece

"farmer's market bounty" (2006), glittergoods

New York, circa 1955

A Summer's Tale (1996, dir. Éric Rohmer)

city

The Scent of Green Papaya (1993, dir. Tran A. Hung)

flowing, relaxed, sensitive