closer to the truth

they are decisions made in response to a tremor beneath the skin of the day, the silent sense that something inside must be honoured. Even if it disrupts everything else.

I will always bring the craft element to a job, whether it’s for big tech or art institutions. And it’s the projects that sit at that junction – where design holds both intellectual clarity and emotional charge – that have shaped me most.

There is something destabilizing about realizing you can have every glamorous line on a résumé and still feel uncertain about who you are. Success is not clarity. Access is not purpose.

and I didn’t get very long into my interview preparations to realize that I wasn’t only writing about a personal hero

Sometimes being too desperate for clarity can ironically push it away.

And even then, we don’t walk, we crack . That crack is the beginning of motion.

I never get exactly what I thought I came for. And that’s kind of the point.

It's to notice the moments when you naturally and effortlessly already do feel that way, then not to screw it up with overthinking.

“There are choices you make,” she said, “but the contradictions don’t go away. You just live with them.”