CURRENT MISSION

everything is a time capsule.

ABOUT ME

(it's like this: let's keep things side-by-side, we will know each other, and that's what will stick. start with this)

I have trouble with my hands. They want to draw and paint and photograph and write about it all. My brain momentum keeps the impulse coming hard and strong. And for what? To scratch notes in my mental notebook. The trouble is this: my amoebic, amorphic memory maintains everything in a form I can swim through in thoughts, but when I try to extract what I find, it comes out flat and full of gaps.

Who else has my pair of eyes and ears? Right you are. So creating vessels to communicate these things in is hopeless - too much is never enough to capture the beast in its environment. A photo deflates it until it becomes a Sea of Dirac, leaving a slice so thin that it is invisible from the side. My hands are distilling what my brain holds through a sieve of lenses and photos, leeching into the amoeba, making it remember how things happened differently. The photo starts to become the memory itself. It is sharper than anything you can remind me of, or anything I can remind myself of. Memory works in funny ways.

It's not infinite, but it's not limited - it's just something I'm building, and, well, have a look. See if you can help me build it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sharing insider tips vis-á-vis the local treasures, right down to the best rooftops to climb

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

not much on my part, but hosted a few

Interests

besides work? maga'zine publishing; large-scale sculpture; rowing (boats); riding (bikes); dining wining bonfiring roofclimbing; freely getting into museums and onto rooftops

• environment
• dining
• painting
• drawing
• soccer
• swimming
• rowing

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

tens of thousands of camels for sale in one valley; two blind couples going for evening strolls in opposite directions along a sidewalk; a fire-twister in the desert; instantaneous soccer games started at the sight of a ball; treehouse houses; students learning, thinking, doing

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Chile, Egypt, France, Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, India, United States