Wednesday, September 30, 2009

[Insert The Name Of Your City Here], Mon Amour ...




Fig. 1. Diane Cook - Little Red Lighthouse - Fort Washington Park, Manhattan, 2002


I am less interested in how one locates oneself in a city than in how one locates a city within oneself. ... For the traveller willing to be seduced, a new city is not only an affair of the mind (all that remembering) and body (all that perambulating), but also an affair of the heart. We leave the cities we love as reluctantly as we leave the beds of our beloveds. We leave the cities where we have loved (albeit briefly), and been loved (albeit badly), even more reluctantly.