The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, founded in 1856, was a veterinary and agricultural science university in Copenhagen, Denmark, until its merger with the University of Copenhagen in 2007. Surrounding the buildings, designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, are its unique gardens, which house a diverse collection of over 6,000 plants and flowers. Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’
Immutability & Permanence: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare
In 2011 I wrote a system poem. In 2024 I inscribed it into the Bitcoin blockchain. In 2025 I finished a photographic work, ICE | July | 1982, built around Gibson’s image of Black ICE: the cryptographic membrane that, in the novel, wraps data against intrusion. This page is an attempt to pull those four… Continue reading Immutability & Permanence: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare
Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
Light snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library (also known as The Royal Library Gardens), which was designed in 1920 by architects Jens Peder Andersen and Thorvald Jørgensen. The Garden of the Royal Danish Library, one of the oldest university library gardens in Europe, known as Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have in Danish, or… Continue reading Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
The Meaning of “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
This started out as a photo of the coastline of Sweden seen from Hellerup, Denmark, in a somewhat dystopian light punctuated by the distant silhouette of the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. Initially, the photo was titled ‘Last Day of March,’ after someone near by said, ‘This looks like the end of everything.’ While reading Jacques… Continue reading The Meaning of “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Degas’ Obsession / The Artificiality of Art
The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. One of the defining traits of light is that it cannot truly be owned, at least not yet. In a sense, trees can archive light temporarily through photosynthesis and transform it into chemical energy. A line can be… Continue reading Degas’ Obsession / The Artificiality of Art
