CHAPTER 9 The Drowned Gun

Time as Poetry

Featuring work by Mark Teiwes

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FIGURE 9.1 City Spirit. © Mark Teiwes

What Are We Looking at?

TEIWES’ CITY SPIRIT IMAGES do indeed have a spectral quality to them: both in terms of the color spectrum, as well as the capture and notion of spirit as a specter—an old thing whose presence is sensed more than it is glimpsed. Like many cities, his has been built around the river’s kiss into the sea. This river has been flowing for millennia, but its lifespan with a city around it is minuscule in geological ...

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