Here I share some of the wonderful things I’ve seen

You will fill the voids
with your mischief,
and some people will love you for your absurdities!

Manoel de Barros, The Boy Who Carried Water in a Sieve /
O menino que carregava água na peneira

A man cooking at a wok in a dark kitchen, steam lit by the window behind him — 1Longmen, Pubei, Guangxi, China 广西浦北龙门镇My grandmother’s kitchen.

A woman with a pink bucket wading across tidal flats toward a low sun — 2Beihai, Guangxi, China 广西北海My mother’s hometown, at low tide.

Two figures in silhouette behind the curved bars of a window, looking out at the city — 3Barbican, London

Two calves lying in a wide meadow under a long bank of cloud, a hiker walking off at the right — 4Mount Wutai, Shanxi, China 山西五台山

Fingers holding a numbered photographic slide of a crowd under a banner, marked This side toward screen — 5Harvard-Yenching Library“Mama, I’m hungry, but I can’t bring myself to eat.”

Two small figures sitting on a sloping clifftop above a pale sea — 6Seven Sisters, East Sussex, United Kingdom

A stack of washers and dryers left outdoors at night, one door open, under a streetlight — 7Laundry machines outside High Rise 5, Cornell

Inside a boat cabin, passengers seen only from the knees down through the windows, bags piled below — 8Key Largo, FloridaOn a dive boat.

A short rainbow under a grey rain curtain over green mountain ridges — 9Mount Wutai, Shanxi, China 山西五台山

A street musician holding a tall wooden harp against weathered green doors — 10Lima, Peru

Jagged mountains above a deep blue lake under passing cloud — 11Torres del Paine, Chile