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Thursday, March 19, 2009

sun in a box



A gift from Deamer Dunn, my favourite digital artist / renaissance person, to keep me warm in Sweden next month. Somehow, he guessed I was blenching at the average April temperature range in Uppsala: one to eight degrees celsius. I'm soaking up Nairobi heat right now, stockpiling it in my cells, for the weeks ahead.

I love the glow against the darkness in this image. The sense of both looking down into a box, and upwards out of a window, simultaneously. It evokes fireflies on hot nights. And the most potent dream I've ever had.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Lena said...

Welcome to Sweden!
I have read in your calendar about your appearance at the Writers' Union annual meeting in Stockholm. Will you do any other appearances while in Sweden? I saw you at Waltic last summer, and I'd just love to see you again, but I cannot come on May 16th.
Lena

3/26/2009 12:36 PM  
Blogger shailja said...

Thank you, Lena!

I will do a public performance in Uppsala in early June. Check back in a couple of weeks for details on my calendar. Hope to see you there.........

3/27/2009 12:46 AM  
Anonymous Lena/northofsweden said...

Thanks for the information, Shailja!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for early June, then.
:)

3/27/2009 1:52 AM  

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