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From: Living on the Moon
An Essay Concerning Lunar Architectural Possibilities
by Nell Branigan

Lunar architecture will offer many new frontiers for artists, but the old truths must still apply if
the edifices of the moon are to be places where people will want to live and work. Lunar
architecture must take account of space and form above all. Art is the outward, objective
expression of inner, subjective experience. It is the symbol of what it is like to be human.
Consider architecture. What is the great element of architecture? It is not form alone, for that is
the great element of sculpture. We live and workinsidethe architectural sculpture, as well as
pondering it from outside. We inhabit its spaces. This is why I say that its greatest elements are
both form and space, and the ways the two relate to one another.

Two years later, Henry published his fifth book to sound reviews and a little more money than heтАЩd
expected. On the strength of this, he had agreed to move to Seattle for a while to be with Nell, despite
the fact that he had no academic appointment there, or prospects for one. They were married in a civil
ceremony in the apex of the Smith Tower, a building Nell particularly admired.
And I am aman Nell particularly admired, Henry later thought. Perhaps love is not an emotion that is
possible for the developed feelings. Perhaps the artist contemplates and symbolizes feeling to such an
extent that he or she canтАЩt just have one after a certain point. Maybe thatтАЩs why IтАЩm only a good poet,
and Nell was a genius. I feel too much stuff. Too much goddamn unformedstuff .

Yet Nell had remembered his poem and by now, she had read all of his work and would quote parts of it
when she was happy or animated by some idea.

In Seattle, NellтАЩs earthly masterpiece was being builtтАФthe Lakebridge Edifice. тАЬBuiltтАЭ was, maybe, not
the word for construction these days. тАЬSubstantiatedтАЭ or тАЬFormedтАЭ seemed more correct, as the macro-
and micromachines interacted with the algorithmic plans to produce a structure utterly true to the
architectтАЩs visionтАФdown to the molecular level.

To achieve such perfection of craft took a little over two years, during which Nell and Henry shared
comfortable apartments on the Alki-Harbor Island Span, a glassy affair of a neighborhood that stretched
across Elliott Bay in a flattened arch. Nell thought it crass and atrocious. Henry decided to make the best
of things, and planted a garden on the thirty-foot-long catwalk that opened up from their bedroom. His
new book began to take shape as a series of captured moments having to do with plants and growth and
getting soil on your pants and hands.
Production and Reproduction
by Henry Colterman

In the nucleus of our home,
my wife draws buildings
in concentrated silence, measured pace
as daylight dapples through the walls
and ceilings
of our semipermeable high-arch
 living space.
While I, raised young among the cows
and maize,
garden the terrace by my hand
and hoe