Of Dust and Light

Seeing, over time

  • In Seville

    Seville, Andalusia

    Entrance of a restaurant called "La Cucaña Triana" in Seville, Spain. The façade is decorated with numerous chalkboards displaying colorful handwritten menu items such as tapas, mojitos, croquetas, and daily specials. The signage highlights the restaurant’s founding year (1995) and invites guests to share meals in a lively, inviting atmosphere.

    Too much writing. I could not focus on any of it.
    Then the smell arrived: olive oil, garlic, salted cod, something frying.

  • Stranded

    Capo Bruzzano, Southern Italy — March 2007.

    Black and white photo of a fishing boat wreck leaning in the waves beneath stratified cliffs and a road, Capo Bruzzano, Calabria

    I stopped. No one was there.

    Later I learned the boat had carried Kurdish refugees. The Coast Guard rescued everyone.

  • The Gate

    Bardolino, Veneto

    Photo of a pier with an open gate in the mist on Lake Garda, Bardolino, Italy.