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I finally finished the illustration for the last chapter of my new essay, called Nightfall.
This fall got busy and I had to keep putting this drawing off. Feels really good to finally cross it off -and to have all the illustrations done. I still have some copyedits and finishing touches to do on the essay itself, but it's almost there.
You can read it here:
https://www.jayperry.works/longform/2024/nightfall/1/
Some photos I've been taking on walks around my neighborhood.
Winter around here gets a bad rap. Gray, dark, bleak. But the longer I live here by the Patapsco River, though, the more I can’t help but fall in love with the way sunlight behaves this time of year.
We adopted a new dog last week, a 3 1/2-year old greyhound we named Penny Jane.
I visited Montreal a few weeks ago for a conference. This was the first time I've been there and I hope it won't be the last - it's such a beautiful city.
https://www.jayperry.works/blog/2025/11/14/visit-to-montreal/
I love the way sunlight filters in through our windows in the morning this time of year. The sun gets brighter in April as the weather gets warmer, and it throws these lovely shadows and highlights across the house when it rises. I like to look out the window as the coffee brews, the house still quiet, and sometimes the light lures me outside.
https://www.jayperry.works/blog/2025/05/04/spring-morning-light/
I love the way sunlight filters in through the windows in the morning this time of year. The sun gets brighter in April as the weather gets warmer, and it throws beautiful shadows and highlights across the house when it rises. I like to look out the window as the coffee brews, the house still quiet, and sometimes the light lures me outside.
Chapters 7 and 8 of my essay ‘Nightfall’ are up: https://www.jayperry.works/longform/2024/nightfall/7
These last couple chapters mull over what the night has meant to us humans over our history, and also what it means to me, personally. It scares us sometimes, but it’s also a place for us to step outside our senses, to lose ourselves, to make contact with the source of things, to transform ourselves.
And now there’s just one more chapter to go! Watch for that one in June.
Chapter 6 of my essay, Nightfall, is up!
When I watch bats or birds fly, I often wonder if it feels like swimming. Do they experience the wind as a fluid they're suspended in? Can they feel their 'buoyancy' change as they climb or dive?
When I swim, I find that I feel... different. Time slows down. I feel a sense, as Akiko Busch put it so beautifully, of 'a vast remove.'
The 5th chapter of my new essay is up!
This chapter is about how we orient ourselves in the world in a very specific way: up and down, land and sky, figure and ground. What might it feel like to escape (or abandon) that? Is our sense of 'figure' and 'ground' essential to our human consciousness? Without it, would we become ...something else?
I took a short walk the other morning. There'd been rain overnight and all the trees were covered in tiny water droplets. The air was awfully humid. As the sun rose everything dried out and it turned into a beautiful day.
https://www.jayperryworks.com/blog/2024/12/30/photo-walk-12-29/
I got a new camera recently, and it got me thinking about what photography means to me, and how our expectations have changed, over the years, about what a camera is.
https://www.jayperry.works/blog/2024/12/19/machines-computers-and-in-between/
I got a new camera last week. After saving up awhile and doing a lot of obsessive research, I brought home a shiny, black Fujifilm X-S20. I surprised myself a little when I chose this particular camera. It’s not the type I usually go for. But I also find myself excited by the new possibilities it offers.