by Tim Girvin | Dec 19, 2010 | Diary
Photo by Dawn Clark Being in New Mexico, climbing mesa, reaching out to the tall sky, looking out to the distance horizon, I stacked the measurement of the moment. That idea of creating something — a memento of the moment, stacking stones in the hand, they are...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 19, 2010 | Diary
Photo by Tim Girvin The world mantel and the heaven tent: the canopy of the sky When I was in college, I’d written a paper on the idea of cosmography in architecture — (kosmos + graphos, from the Greek) the idea that architecture is something — a...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 18, 2010 | Diary
THE LADDER Photo by Tim Girvin As I study the old adobe structures, that look like boulders and slumped stone, polished in the winds and sun of the ranges of New Mexico, the plains that bake in the clearest, azure skies — there’s a contrast to the...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 18, 2010 | Diary
The leap — any jump, the reach, the leap out into the blue — it’s that moment when all unfolds in risk and adventure — but in the burst of imagination, it all must be placed there. Jump into the breach. New Mexico It would seem that the real...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 18, 2010 | Diary
The Meditation Photos by Tim Girvin When you are standing, looking out into the sky — westward, the sun, a cauldron, the clouds swirl — every moment is a new revelation; everything is in flux, the flow of the skyward mists. And sometimes, it’s good...
