Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Present Day, June 9, 2026Let me be precise about what Sanctified Hunger is and what it is not.It is not an atheist album. I am not arguing that God does not exist. I have had five hundred and sixty-eight years to gather evidence on that question and it remains...
The Weight of Having Spoken

The Weight of Having Spoken

Present Day, June 4, 2026The Geometry of Ruin has been in the world for two weeks. I am still adjusting to what it means to have placed the testimony in public hands, to have allowed something that lived for years in my own accumulated observation to become a thing...
Why Now: The Coordinates

Why Now: The Coordinates

Present Day, April 2026People ask why I am speaking now. The question deserves a direct answer.I broke my silence because I recognized the coordinates. Not in a mystical sense: in the specific sense that I have watched, from various distances, the progression of a...
The Geometry of Violence

The Geometry of Violence

Various, consolidatedI want to say something specific about war, because I have been in enough of them to have a basis for the observation that is not theoretical.The reasons given for wars change. The configuration of the wars does not change as much as the changing...
The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

Present Day, March 2026For centuries I documented in journals. The journals from my early years in Florence are careful and specific: names, dates, conversations, the details of events that I suspected would be significant before I could be certain they were. The...