I Thought it Was a Tire

This post was written by Zachary Kai as part of Blaugust 2026. Read the post I wrote about art history for Zachary's site. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ I’m participating in Blaugust this year. Like most things, on a whim.Nerd Girl, who’s coordinating this year’s edition, compiled community-builder prompts. I’m always for those, because where would we be without community?One challenge: write a guest post for someone’s site, or have someone write one for yours.I thought: why not both?If you’re wondering why the writing style here sounds different, that’s why! This is James’ website. I’m is Zachary Kai, and mine is zacharykai.net. We’re exchanging posts.I asked James if he’d write about how he sees art, because he’s studying art history, and the more I hear about art history from other people, the better.He asked me to write about nature, fitting, since that’s what I enjoy most about what he writes.(I dictated this, so it’s rambly. At least I can clean it up in post, as a film person might say.)Two Kinds Of…