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Tag Archives: Channa Daswatte

Ena de Silva’s moving house
Al Jazeera / Archaeologists / Architects / Archivists / Artists

Ena de Silva’s moving house

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Smriti Daniel

If you know where to look, you can find the numbers all over Ena de Silva’s house. Faded yet still legible, the white scribbles mark each tile in the parquet floor, each pebble and boulder in the sunny interior courtyard. Under their layer of paint, the bricks are numbered, and so are the columns and … Continue reading →

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Under my umbrella.
5 hour wait for a 9 hour flight to Bangkok + 8 hour wait for a 3.5 hour flight to Colombo. But at least I found a spot with a view.
Spot the zebra. We got there early enough to see several animals, including a few antelope and warthogs. Birds everywhere.
One step ahead of the rain.
Wildflowers and lichen, no filter needed.
Mount Longonot's last big eruption was some 400,000 years ago, as this enormous crater is witness to. The most recent was a smaller eruption, just a 100 years ago.

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