Evening Fantasy

Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

Colorful Circuit Cities Built From Motherboards, Processors, and Microchips. Hellwig built these cityscapes last year using the guts of old MacBooks, IBMs, and even PlayStations that he scavenged from eBay and friends' basements.

Fulmars circling Seljalandsfoss, South Coast, Iceland

Taken January 2020

White Sands, New Mexico

Ernst Haas, 1952

Photographs by Nan Goldin

At the bar: Toon, Cee, and So, Bangkok, 1992 Max, Muffy, and Peter at Sharon’s birthday party, Provincetown, 1976 Joey and Andres in Hotel Askanischer Hof, Berlin, 1992 Christine floating in the sea, St. Barth's, 1999 Yogo Putting on Powder, Second Trip, Bangkok, 1993 Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973 Clemens lying on his back, Paris, 2001 Christmas at The Other Side, Boston, 1972

pond, from within and above

After Harvest, Pullman, Washington

William Garnett, 1979

Speaking of carcasses, here are three I saw on a beach in Suffolk on a hot day last year in the springtime. Everything was dry and smelly.

The first is a seal, curled up by a marshy tide pool above the dunes, long forgotten by the ocean. I think it might be a common seal, by it’s size and blondeish fur, but who can really tell at this stage. Note the little crab claw lying on its pelt, if you zoom in. Probably carried along by the same scavengers who picked the carcass clean!

The second is a little more difficult but I think it was a harbour porpoise. All distinguishing features (tail, dorsal fin, face) are missing but it has a blowhole and is about the right size. It's grey belly had gone leathery and tanned in the sun.

The last is a lesser-spotted dogfish, or small-spotted catshark, if you are so inclined. Dog for scale.

by Oargi