In Moon Terms
"Now time curves back. We almost touch." - Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace In Moon Terms: Otherwise, A Handful Of What I Will Spend The Next Five Years Thinking About Water jar, full moon, script-under-pillow method. Affirmations, subliminals, starfish position? Do what you can to get what you want. Manifest, manifest, MANIFEST ! In 1969, we put a man on the Moon. You know this story. For the most part, we wanted to beat Russia (at the time the Soviet Union) in the big Space Race at the centre of the Cold War. When the first human feet made contact with the Moon’s surface, I wonder if the soil there recorded the print’s humanity, or its Americanness. Because that’s the thing, right? Thanks to the Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972, mankind came to understand that the Moon’s lunar regolith—the layer of, essentially, debris and otherwise loose rubble accumulated over the billions of years of the Moon’s existence—was a time capsule. The lack of real atmosphere, wind, or wa...