Michael (Katherine’s brother) used to live in a “former glories” part of south Chicago. Big, big houses built by rich industrialists, now surrounded by grim malls and tenements – each decorated with an individualised decay, and somehow rising above their diliapidation.
I find industrial decay often moving, if not necessarily beautiful – we found a disused marble factory once in Italy, full of strange spaces and dead machines whose sense of lost purpose was very touching.
Michael gave us a brilliant guide to unusual things to see in Chicago, which I found on a scrap of Moleskine while clearing out my office (and kept: we enjoyed it that much). It sits alongside my notes for your wedding…
Sometimes I like to understand that all our creations are not destined to exist in the future. Definitely worth knowing.
One of the hazards of working so much with technology is that one works with something highly disposable. I would love to create something long-lived before I die. And I dont mean our publishing system which will have been running 10 years in March!
Michael (Katherine’s brother) used to live in a “former glories” part of south Chicago. Big, big houses built by rich industrialists, now surrounded by grim malls and tenements – each decorated with an individualised decay, and somehow rising above their diliapidation.
I find industrial decay often moving, if not necessarily beautiful – we found a disused marble factory once in Italy, full of strange spaces and dead machines whose sense of lost purpose was very touching.
Michael gave us a brilliant guide to unusual things to see in Chicago, which I found on a scrap of Moleskine while clearing out my office (and kept: we enjoyed it that much). It sits alongside my notes for your wedding…
Sometimes I like to understand that all our creations are not destined to exist in the future. Definitely worth knowing.
One of the hazards of working so much with technology is that one works with something highly disposable. I would love to create something long-lived before I die. And I dont mean our publishing system which will have been running 10 years in March!
A fair and commendable goal. Of things you have done other than your son, there is your poetry as a starter.
New website looks good, too. Maybe it will last…
I’m really going to miss you – but I guess you’ll keep the blog positivity coming!