In peril of erfinden, inventing and making up, trying too hard to find, to be defined, to be fine. All these notions of Utopia, imagination, Einbildung: The discovery and fabrication of paradise islands, a setting either for the ideal or for the unwanted and discarded. Tropical paradise, all [more]

The island is getting rather physical. Revolution used to be a geological term: Natural disasters reshaping the surface of the earth. Streets get inky and syrupy at night, as the string of islands appear so very solitary and isolated on the map, tiny dots on blue expanse, an [more]

Paleness is what I am able to remember. Pale light, pale skin, pale smiles, pale feelings, pale thoughts. Feeble, hesitating light, filtered through thick, un-layered, undefined Berlin sky, Berliner Gräulichkeiten, lid of pressure. I am able to recollect it, because I had been collecting the greyness for a [more]