It struck me as natural and true to Howe's sense of language that words should chart a passage toward the printed page from their origins in ambient space.
As a writer who works very frequently from visual material of all kinds, I have been fascinated to chart the passage of particular lives from an assemblage of portraits and photographs.
Sarah Kipp's digital video "Timepiece" layers imagery of her childhood and other family members onto a video image of her face to chart the passage of time from birth to old age and back again.
He paused and said, "You thought we were joking?" After which they manned their 88s and like kids on a playground began to riff off each other in a torrent of improvised passages--no charts in sight at the moment (some found their way to the pianos later).
"Teenage stories tend to chart the harrowing passage to adulthood where no relationship is ever so uncomplicated again.
The work of charting channels and passages through the maze of reefs, begun by Cook, continued during the 19th century.
Taken together, these memories chart a significant passage in our cultural history, a process you might call the cosmopolitanization of American taste or perhaps the gentrification of the American kitchen.
There are attempts to chart the fugitive passage through a city: cinema tickets, certificates, the bill from a restaurant, a line of matchbooks, a taxi meter, a stopped clock, a used coffee cup.
He believes our level of unpreparedness is even worse than that of the 1845 expedition to chart the Northwest Passage, an attempt which ended in tragedy with the death of the entire party including its leader, Sir John Franklin, who was a founder of the Royal Geographical Society.
Canadian archaeologists have located one of two ships lost at sea in 1845 during an expedition to chart the Northwest Passage, a sea route that would snake through waterways at the northern edge of Canada, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic Ocean.
