This is another comment coming in the wake of my recent visit to Fogo Island for Shore Time — a gathering to discuss design, art, place [Link] [Link] It’s about the wonderful architecture of Todd Saunders [Link]. More matters of hospitality, of hosts, visitors, and the ghosts that can haunt their meeting. At Shore Time,…
figure in a landscape
Ovidiana — archaeological theatre
Becoming stone [Link] [Link]
Statue and thunderstorm
Nyborg Fjord, Denmark.
Welsh memories in a Cretan landscape
I am on a short visit to Crete. Elounda, Lasithi. Out east. Past the prehistoric ruins of Malia, to where Chris (Witmore) and I drove in the Renault convertible on an impromptu photo shoot. It’s been twenty five years since. Another visit now to liquid commingling times. A dappled landscape I look out over a…
Newsletter — Stanford Archaeology Center
Prospective reflections on 2025-26 Acting with nature — prehistory My new book Archaeologies of Nature: Activating the Archive, written with Gabriella Giannachi, University of Exeter and Turin, is now complete and in production. Open Access — it will be available as PDF in June 2026. We use an archaeology of artworks to probe human relationships…
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Høl Strand, Listed, Bornholm, Baltic Sea.