Essay Places
We’ve accepted a strange little lie about place. That it is background. As though the room simply sits there, minding its business, while all the important human things happen somewhere else. Nice try. The room is participating. You can feel this when you walk...Essay Places
Some places meet you before anyone says a word. Not because they are expensive or impressive. More because they seem to have been made by someone who remembered that people do not enter life in neat condition. Think of a room where the door opens easily and the light...Essay Places
I have a theory that you can tell what a place believes about people before you’ve even properly entered it. The doorway gives the game away. A place either lets the body arrive, or it starts testing you before you’ve taken your coat off. There’s the entrance that...