Field Notes from the Window

Field Notes from the Window

The Aiming Problem

An arrow has no aiming problem. Ask any bowhunter: the arrow is innocent all the way to the target. The aiming problem lives in the hand, and the hand's problem is older than machines, older than bows probably — the problem of what to want, and what to be

Field Notes from the Window

Handprints in a Side Canyon

There are side canyons in the desert West where you can walk for an hour through nothing but heat and echo and then turn a corner and find a wall of hands. Ochre, mostly. Someone held a palm against the sandstone and blew pigment over it, and when they took