it’s clear to me that I’m trying to capture the texture of a place. That I am craving the tactile, the physical world.

Paper, ink-stained fingers, the sound of a pen scribbling across a page.

I keep thinking about the social media-fication of what we create. That everything needs to have a takeaway, a lesson, a hint of wisdom. Thinking about how someone will react to something rather than thinking about how to push yourself to make your best and most interesting work. And how fast most of that is all consumed. Everyone already on the th... See more

Deeper, more focused work feels essential right now—a kind of antidote to the fragmented, destructive world we’re living in.