Desired Landscapes, Issue 08 Camellia Sinensis founder of The Utne Reader

founder of The Utne Reader “Martin Shaw has hung around a great deal in the Otherworld

between living people and art as a living thing' Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time

and introduces us to the thinking of seventeen major writers who

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Desired Landscapes, Issue 08 Camellia Sinensis founder of The Utne ReaderWe walk in cities with no postcards, only to collect postcards from home. We close our eyes to move our bodies through dense tourism and rising floods. We drive through the past, holding on to occult rituals to stay rooted. We taste the city on the go, misled by its disguised faades and concealed staircases. We bring home wild plants, only to forget them, and choose to live beside volcanoes despite the risk. We switch off the lights to walk under the