Palimpsest: (noun) something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Underneath the flying buttresses of Seville cathedral is a mosque. Radiating out from that centre, the mosaic geometries of Moorish architects give shape to this whole city, where Catholic iconography is lain thickly overtop like paste. At the centre of…

Part of the draw of travelling is not-belonging. I’ve stepped away from the warm embrace of Salt Spring –  a place so familiar it’s mapped like the lines in my own hand.  This morning put the ‘travail’ in travel; feeling lost myself, lonely, acutely strange in the roaring tumult of Mexico City, taking it all…