Travelers & Artists: What Happened to the Give & the Take?
We are all guests in the lives of others, and we ought to treat our hosts with not only respect, but also with genuine interest, especially if we travel far to meet them or decide to make art from their lives.
The Eiffel Tower Dangles: Writing a City
Writing about a city, just as writing about any subject, is a way of documenting it within history, for giving it a voice, for making it human almost, letting it breathe and move and speak. It may have dreams, it may have fears, it may have flaws and disease.
Notes on Tourism, the Museum, IKEA, and Capitalism
Chiran Raj Pandey reflects on capitalism, tourism and the reproducibility of experience inspired by a trip to Vatican City.
Writing Florence and Siena
Invoking Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Tzy Jiun Tan writes on her experience of art, life and cityscapes in Italy in this creative nonfiction piece.