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Looking Closely is Everything — by Craig Mod

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How the pandemic taught me to look closely at the world, and how I hope to carry that forward out the other side

Snowy Evening at Kambara, Utagawa Hiroshige - Met Looking Closely is Everything How the pandemic taught me to look closely at the world, and how I hope to carry that forward out the other side Looking closely at dang near anything might very well be the key to it all. 1 With that in mind, I've been trying to get better at this, this deceptively simple act of looking closer. By dint of pandemic stasis, I suspect we’ve all gotten better at closer looking. Perhaps you’ve noticed the subtle slant of the floor of the room in which you've been stuck for months on end, or the daily rhythms of that on

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