Amazing what kind of thoughts the brain can produce. In China, there is a surveillance camera brand that has sold 175 million cameras today. That is over one camera for every 10 persons. Cameras that are always switched on. Which pry everywhere on, through or into. Sending data non-stop to algorithms to make blurry images…
Month: March 2023
Pavement Mud
Today it is chilly outside. Dizzy rain with a temperature just above freezing point. Nice weather to be indoors. On the way to Suzhou, I look forward to every indoor moment: the subway, the train, the second subway, the lab and the coffee room – with a cup of hot coffee. When it rains you…
Scent
When I descend on the escalator towards the platform at 6:30 in the evening, what I’ve been smelling the entire journey becomes visible. A light glow hangs over Suzhou, as if a table lamp is gently burning. The towers in front of me are fainter than you’d expect. In the twilight they stand in their…
Preface
On a Friday in January 2022, Jess and I were having lunch with a co-pilot who flies for Hainan air. We first met him in the mountains of Yunnan, when he returned from his last flight to Toronto, and we were supposed to meet in Shanghai today. As usual, we talked about work, travels, living…