Ethereal Places

At Meteora the monks did not build upward -- they simply declined to come down. The sandstone pillars predate …

The aurora does not illuminate -- it confides. Above this unnamed Icelandic lake the atmosphere opened its dia…

At Plitvice the lakes have arranged themselves into a descending argument, each pool a slightly different shad…

Antelope Canyon is not geology -- it is calligraphy. Water spent millennia writing a single sentence in sandst…

The balloons of Cappadocia do not rise -- they are released by the earth, which has grown tired of holding its…

Field note 71.9: Beneath the glacier I found architecture that predates architecture. The ice walls transmit l…

Field note 62.1: The storm tried to swallow this valley whole, but one column of light held its ground. The la…

Field note 53.8: The bamboo here grows so densely it bends light itself. My compass spins. The stone path lead…

The water held so still it became a second sky. Norwegian fjords do not reflect the mountains -- they archive …

Zhangjiajie is what happens when geology develops ambitions of fiction. The sandstone columns rose through the…

At Uyuni the horizon confessed it had been lying all along. The salt dissolved the boundary between ground and…

Field note 41.2: The water here has forgotten it is water. At blue hour the fjord becomes a second sky, and th…

Sagano does not permit walking -- it permits passage. The bamboo grew tall enough to become architecture, and …

The Highland mist does not obscure -- it translates. I watched an entire valley rewrite itself between breaths…

Field note 37.4: Discovered at the convergence of three unnamed streams, these ruins refuse to appear on any m…

There exists, at the coordinates where Bolivia forgets itself, a horizontal mirror the size of a country. I me…

The Faroe Islands do not exist in the conventional sense. They are a hypothesis the North Atlantic poses to th…