Small Records of Attention

What makes a place memorable? Is it its history, its beauty, or simply the fact that we lingered there long enough to notice?

Over more than a decade, Glenn Harvey travelled slowly through France’s canals, rivers and landscapes aboard a vintage Dutch boat, accompanied by his wife, Sally, and their rescue dogs—Haggis, Delilah and Else. Along the way, he made twenty paired journal drawings and essays: records of locks, towpaths, moorings, trees, weather and the small dramas of a life - mainly - afloat.

Here, drawing and writing do more than describe. They slow the world down, explore what it means to pay attention and turn passing encounters into lasting ones. Quietly observant and often wry, Small Records of Attention invites us to look again-and discover what a place can reveal when we give it time.