Let’s begin with the paintings, Marc Chagall’s Rain, a surreal portrait of a farm in a Russian village— with strange dreamlike childlike forms of humans & animals—
Thinking about him now, I realize Juho spent most of his time trying to tell me something. Our communication tended to fail us in important ways. It was mainly my fault. We were forever running into these little word-to-word problems.
Under the oppressive July heat, I carry my aching body, sweat-coated and glistening, up the staircase spiraling and spiraling skyward until I arrive. Within, a sightless darkness—
In 2010, the Spanish government came to an agreement with the European Union that formalized what was already a deep, generational shift in the country’s relationship to coal, a resource that had profoundly shaped the economy and culture of...
