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“Releasing art into the world becomes easier when we remember that each piece can never be a total reflection of us, only a reflection of who we are i
For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not...your work disappoints you
The doom-scroll economy benefits from your nihilism.
an abundance of verbosity rather than quality, noise rather than impact.
To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vamp
The utopia was temporary, its beauty and its small victories whittled away by the scythe of inaction.
We assume people want polished perfection. But often, they’re more drawn to the rough draft. The early adopters, the ones who find you first? They’re
To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh
journaling for anti-curriculum What do I want to learn? Why do I want to learn? How much time do I have to learn? Where is the first accessible place
Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be
The capacity to act in concert for a public-political purpose is what Arendt calls power. Power needs to be distinguished from strength, force, and vi
Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes.
In the first century BC, Cicero said: “Freedom is participation in power.”
For the academy, “research” is a term of art. For our purposes, research is not a rarefied academic exercise. It is a fundamentally human activity, an
Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts. It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now? It’s fine, and m
You don’t need a full thesis. Just an angle. A thread.
To research is to follow a scent. Sometimes you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes it starts with a single word you can’t sh
Before we had vibes, we had the chillier, more Germanic zeitgeist. Both tap into our appetite for locating our lives within a bigger picture. But vibe
My closet became less of a project and more of a projection. Transference at its finest.
It’s nowhere near a capsule wardrobe, but it's madness contained. Me, concentrated. Every piece is either thoughtfully chosen or intentionally kept fr
In truth, most of us don’t suffer from a knowledge deficit—we suffer from a doing deficit. We take online courses and read books but rarely apply what
This is the very bland and very basic and college-freshman level thing I’ve been thinking about: what is luxury?
“If someone truly is creative and inspiring,” they write, “it will show up in how they allocate their spare time.” In job interviews, the authors advi
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the n
“love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy” because “our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness,” Rilke
Regardless of what happens, our six weeks taught me that the deepest connections don’t come from trying to prove our worth, but from having the courag
How to Read a Collection 1. Context & Conversation Who: Who designed it? What’s their background and prior house (if any)? Where: Which fashion hous
Keep asking: What emotion do I feel when I see this designer’s work — calm, tension, nostalgia, thrill? What forms repeat across what I love — str
