Book Review of Barbara Hurd’s “Epilogue: Afterwords on the Planet” on Tupelo Quarterly
Welcome to the Machine
Transformation Process–the process of transforming raw material into a finished good. The Centre Georges Pompidou is an architectural anomaly in the heart of the charming Beaubourg district. Nothing about this structure says “museum,” which is part of the point of the place. This machine sits, plunked down or assembled (depending on your point of view), in …
Light Monet
Four minutes. That is how long Claude Monet had to capture natural light, in any given moment, before the speed of the earth’s rotation inched the light ever slightly to the west, and changed the hue of the colors, the length of the shadows, and the fickle reflections of his lily pond or the Seine …