An introduction to a new series exploring our family’s long relationship with Thetis Island. Through photographs, memory, and historical research, I begin reconstructing how the land was first settled and how our family became a fixture every summer at camp on Lot 19 for 60 years. This sets the stage for a deeper investigation into the island’s early community and landscape.

A first-person account of a liminal sound experiment conducted in the service corridors of a corporate building. By recording music played in an acoustically distinctive space and replaying it in situ, the author experiences “aftersound,” an auditory afterimage where perception lags behind reality. The essay explores liminality, illbient aesthetics, psychoacoustics, and how sound can become portable space.

Me: Very much related sidebar. Please compare and draw parallels between the Yeats poem, "The Second Coming," and our current political and cultural situation. Chatgpt: This is a sidebar, but it’s not a digression — it’s a structural mirror , which is why The Second Coming  keeps asserting itself in your canon. I’ll do this in three passes: What Yeats is actually saying (briefly, precisely) Parallels to the current political / cultural moment Why this matters for your work , not just as...