The City Mourned an Artist

The City Mourned an Artist

by | Jun 13, 2026 | Journal

Rome, April 7, 1520Raphael Sanzio died yesterday. Thirty-seven years old, on his birthday, of a fever. Rome has gone into a mourning I have not seen extended to an artist before and do not expect to see again in my lifetime, which is a more complicated statement than...
The Ember and the Children

The Ember and the Children

by | May 31, 2026 | Journal

Present Day, May 2026Children of the Ember closes the album because the geometry is not complete without the closing movement, and the closing movement is not ruin but emergence.I have watched the Black Death move through Europe in the 14th century. I was not present...
The Workshop on the Via dei Servi

The Workshop on the Via dei Servi

by | May 27, 2026 | Journal

Florence, October 14, 1471He was not yet thirty and already the most unsettling mind in any room he entered. I watched him from across Verrocchio’s workshop today, where he was bent over a drawing of a water wheel, cross-hatching shadow with his left hand in a...