Time and the Lake

Time and the Lake

Time and the lake in relationship to the writing of Richard Powers in his book The Overstory. How do we understand time in relationship for Lake Michigan. “But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.” – Richard Powers from The Overstory.

Time and the lake in relationship to the writing of Richard Powers in his book The Overstory. How do we understand time in relationship for Lake Michigan. “But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.” - Richard Powers from The Overstory.

A limited edition photograph from The Shore, where the silvery light of morning unifies water, shore and sky together as one.