The boat at night
A small sailing boat on big water at night, and the pair of loafers that pulled the thread back to it this spring.
June 2026Colour after the fire
Henk Chabot's 1940 fire painting hangs in a museum with my family name. Rotterdam keeps much of its art outside, including Zadkine's hollow figure and Gabo's steel construction.
May 2026The old men on the square
A question typed from a park bench, and the warmest Wednesday of a London March.
May 2026Speed-running taste
Jeans and department-store shirts in January 2025; sixteen months later, guessing a cloth's weight by hand.
May 2026Slightly more orange
This site was supposed to look like E. H. Shepard's pencil work. After three rounds of yellow, the log read 'still 100% LLM generated tell look, just slightly more orange.'
February 2026Britain's war story
I'm Dutch; my war begins with absence. What the Blitz spirit and the Keep Calm mugs look like from Rotterdam.
February 2026England's rentier economy
A friend's remark over dinner sent me digging through demography, class history, housing, and food bank numbers.