
2019 was a year of unexpected losses
[Still image from Jean Rouch's 1961 "Chronicle d'un été"] 2019 was a year of unexpected losses. I held my breath at the receiver’s end...


If I were to still be in Marseille
If I were to still be in Marseille walking with Trang, in a late afternoon against the rush of the sun, I would stir the wind with a...


A late note: On Miss Saigon and the power of seeing
It was an extraordinary evening in April 2017. In a Broadway theatre off the bustling transit hub of Times Square, I felt a heaviness in...


VIEW FROM THE HILLTOP: Synthesized Modernism and The Legacy of Fine Art Education in Colonial Vietna
On November 22nd 2014, something extraordinary transpired in the Hongkong office of the international auction giant Christie’s. An oil...

Beyond the Dead and the Living: Towards an Anthropology of the Third
A moment of silence and suspension in the air, before the author retrieves the result of her visa application for travel to the study...


Summer in Phnom Penh
It's the start of 24! And as many of you might have known I've been here in Phnom Penh for a few weeks to kickstart this summer. After a...