Allan Burns’ work, often in the context of outdoor life and wide open spaces, explores the incipient andthe potential. He seeks engagement, a way into the world, but at the same time maintains a degree ofreserve. Readers find ourselves thus at the boundary of things and events—far-off birds, distant rain—andmay here glimpse origins and alternative existences, as well as recognize the way these can overlap withand seep through into our own.