Making connections. "Human memory is encoded in air currents and river sediments."

“We long for place; but place itself longs.” Hogtown Creek c. 2018

“It’s no metaphor to feel the influence of the dead in the world, just as it’s no metaphor to hear the radiocarbon chronometer, the Geiger counter amplifying the faint breathing of rock, fifty thousand years old. (Like the faint thump from behind the womb wall.) It is no metaphor to witness the astonishing fidelity of minerals magnetized, even after hundreds of millions of years, pointing to the magnetic pole, minerals that have never forgotten magma whose cooling off has left them forever desirous. We long for place; but place itself longs. Human memory is encoded in air currents and river sediments. Eskers of ash wait to be scooped up, lives reconstituted.”

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces, 1996