Letters on Sight: Two writers reflect on landscape, neighbors, and artistic vision

Around this time last year, my friend Annie asked me if I wanted to write a series of epistolary essays, passed back and forth with no real agenda. Because we live in opposite corners of the country—she’s on the West Coast, I’m on the East—I thought our respective landscapes might be a generative place to start. We wrote to each other through winter’s shortest days and continued as the light imperceptibly lengthened, as one year stepped aside for the next. What began as a correspondence about geography opened into meditations on vision, fear, and wonder. These letters ask different incarnations of the same question: “How do we behold and bear the world for all that it is, and all it is not?”

We’ll be publishing this essay, one letter at a time, throughout the month of November. You can read it here.

And listen to our introductory conversation about the form of letter-writing here.