Matthew BattlesViral portraitureOf all things—a scene that has stayed with me, from the late ’70s TV series The Incredible Hulk, since I saw it as a ten-year-old: Bill…·4 min read·May 10, 2021----
Matthew BattlesThe Dogs in the TreesThe first sightings of dogs in trees were reported not long after the Fall equinox. Early rumor came in the form of videos shot at arms’…9 min read·Sep 11, 2018--1--1
Matthew BattlesCamera LucidaMy middle-aged memories of the house by the sea, like the photographs my family took there, have a veiled provenance. Caught amidst…·15 min read·Sep 3, 2018----
Matthew BattlesThis blue-green conversationI look out from my living-room window into the dome of my street’s tree canopy, where broccoli tops of oak and cottonwood foliage sway atop…3 min read·Sep 2, 2018----
Matthew BattlesThe UnicornAllen Dwiggins lived by himself in a brick townhouse in an old, forgotten neighborhood. A graphic designer, he went to work each day in a…8 min read·Aug 29, 2018----
Matthew BattlesEureka: lightning, sympathy, and the lively limits of perceptionLast month, the New York Times published a story by Steph Lin—“Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?”—reporting out a study from a…5 min read·Jul 10, 2018----
Matthew BattlesMissing minor thingsfrom Bethany Nowviskie’s reconstitute the world [12 June 2018]:3 min read·Jul 2, 2018----
Matthew BattlesDark pictures, thrones, poems that take a thousand years to die: algorithms, butterflies, and…According to the most recent update to the Catalogue of Life, there are 1869 genera in the Geometridae. The larvae of these moths are known…4 min read·Jun 26, 2018----
Matthew BattlesTime and the Selva OscuraMidway through the Andrews Forest residency, my day opens at a trailhead marked with a sign in moss-furred wood: EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED…5 min read·Jun 25, 2018----
Matthew BattlesCry, They Are CalledIn old-growth forest, a more-than-human mythology finds refuge·9 min read·Jun 16, 2018----