Over a decade ago Alexander McCall Smith recommended this book to me:
Distance and Memory is a beautiful book. Peter Davidson was the first to ‘introduce’ me to the idea of wunderkammers:
In 2013, I made this film of our family holiday in Skye. I called it: Wunderkammer:
A few months ago I wrote this short poem:
Today has been wunderkammer,
a day where one idea inspired another.
I began this poem yesterday.
The following passages are from the introduction to Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald [another beautiful book]:
