There is a difference between fitting in and belonging. The Providence Planning Board for 249 Thayer Street approved the design, materials, and usage of the building because it fits in. The grand opening of its signature first floor restaurant, Shake Shack, came and went on March 22nd, 2019. The business has now been open long…
Observation, Part 3
It randomly occurred to me in the shower one night that my grandma sometimes used to fondly recall her visit to Princeton in the 90s when things were much easier for her and also for the rest of us, when she could sleep through a 13-hour flight like a baby and grab a big fat…
10:16 AM, Hope Street
Everything is blinding. Cars shoot spotlightsinto my eyes; the concrete become marbleshines; zebra stripes. Horizontal pearls. This is a retouched, opalescent world.Perhaps artificial. The greens are too greenand the sky is too blue; it hurts; I wish I werebetter equipped than eyes; more open. The lines are sharp and in focus; thesecrisp tree branches were…
“The Art of Science and the Commitment to Awareness”
https://events.brown.edu/featured/view/event/event_id/108634 Sponsored and hosted by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the talk I attended today was given by the multimedia artist Kelly Milukas. Milukas’ project “Keys for the Cure” is a collection of paint, photography and 3-D artwork characterized by the literal use of “keys” as visual metaphors of the physiological process of healing….
Intruder Alert
To return for the final time to this bench can only be described as bittersweet. As my thoughts outside of poetry and science and their intersection wander toward graduation and the entrance of many of my friends into the real world—their exiting from the world we have shared for so long—I begin to think of…
Observation of a place #3
We are well into spring and my place of observation is not as enjoyable as I had hoped. I conducted my observation in the morning on April 23rd following some rain showers. I was unable to sit on the usual bench as it was soaking wet, which really put a damper on my enjoyment and…
Nature Lab Photogrammetry
Time like a river has brought down the light things that float on the surface, and sunk what is weighty and solid. Failing to imitate God, who on the first day created only light, and produced on that day no material effects, every effort expended on experience has sought not illuminating. Pray that the human…
Scanning Nature
For this exercise, I wanted to use the Nature Lab facilities to try and understand the anxiety that Robert Hooke writes about in Micrographia. As he sees a different world than the one he is familiar with, he is forced to meditate on the inadequacy of human senses. I have tried to roll my analysis…
Construction, Part 2
There is a new force on the block and it’s about to shake up the status quo on Thayer street. The disgruntled local winds whipped around for months, objecting to the obstructed view, but were ultimately no match for the gustatory revolution that took root and is now flourishing along the main artery of town….
Butterfly Vision
Asterope optima I A flash of blue sinking into shadow I lure eyes with the peek of mystery like water or night might lead to self-discovery I bask in my own gravity And swallow the fallen II I am the sharp refusal of temptation Silvery base slipping into dark overcoat Heart of fire clenched The…