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The textures of silenceI have lived mostly on my own for three years, and for most of that time I would have told you the silence was the best part. In a world that never stops talking, …

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Time for distance, Distance for timeTwo oils I reach for often behave nothing like each other, and knowing how they differ on paper is a different thing from watching what they do in a r …

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Describing a scent, not dictating itFor me, citronella is a small roof garden. We had it for more than twenty years, full of plants, with a wooden swing chair where I used to read and wr …

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Half chemistry, half autobiography You walk into a room and something shifts before you have a thought about it. The light is the same. The furniture has not moved. But the air carr …

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The selves a home holds A home where all of you can coexistOne summer at university, my friends went home for the holidays and the term emptied out around me. I was left in a rented …

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Kirchner’s Kitchen: A Meditation on Colour and ScentTo step into Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Alpine Kitchen” (1918) is to enter a threshold where exterior landscape and interior life are wo …

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