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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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The Art of Languor

August 05, 2025
Tags: painting, art, theology, museum, body

Our At-Last View

April 09, 2024
Tags: japan, mountains, travel, photography, view, body

Digital Bodies Bowing

October 07, 2023
Tags: Japan, restaurant, screens, body

The Hands of a Pilgrim

September 16, 2023
Tags: Japan, pilgrimage, travel, modernity, buddhism, statue, body

A Clean Room for the Body

November 19, 2022
Tags: body, hotel, road, freeway, Midwest, travel, cars

Surveillance Security

November 03, 2022
Tags: dubai, security, surveillance, body, police, street scene

That Kind of Body

November 01, 2022
Tags: dubai, body, fitness, business, city, instagram

Bodies in Landscapes

November 01, 2022
Tags: dubai, street scene, body, city, landscape

The Remains of St. Simeon

July 20, 2022
Tags: cairo, Coptic, relic, saint, sacred space, body

The Global Look

December 24, 2021
Tags: dubai, corporations, globalization, body, sports, clothing, screens

Seeing as a Body

December 21, 2021
Tags: dubai, body, view, city, google earth, experience
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Nelson in the Crypt

January 28, 2020
Tags: London, city, tomb, war, body, burial
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A Monument for Another Place

December 27, 2018
Tags: Senegal, monunent, statue, islam, identity, clothing, body

Tutankhamun on Your Forearm

January 18, 2017
Tags: ancient Egypt, tattoo, body, museum, public art