I am also worrying about my own diversity - about having the best, most alive parts of myself paved over by a ruthless logic of use. …it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mystery, and my own depths.

[How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, p183]

“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

I wonder what it would be like to experience a social network that was completely grounded in space and time, something you had to travel to in order to use, that worked slowly. [How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, p166] (reverse of Meyrowitz's thought experiment, p160'-163)

There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get

modern hand embroidery - touchable drawings; think of it as art, not craft; projects: small scale to represent what you experience each day; cartoon paper as the transferable medium; make own sketches (live or based on photos), transfer and stitch to explore what styles resonate; use imags created by others and pull out the details which speak to y