Keely Adler

Here, you can be in touch with artists and their work in a way that feels fluid and in tandem with your own life. You can witness all of us grow while growing yourself. It's a place where you don't have to be secretive or competitive, your contribution is part of an ecosystem. We’ve been lucky to be around a community of makers who share, are fair,... See more

Online, a lot of us have been unhappy with our social media platforms for a long time, but we hang in there, year after year, scandal after scandal, because as much as we hate the platform, we love the people who use the platform. We don’t leave because we don’t want to lose them. They don’t leave because they don’t want to lose us. It’s a hostage ... See more

The possibility of sitting with the discomfort of uncertainty and being open to multiple views of the world is difficult. Our prospective brains are not quite trained to maintain multiple worlds and views when simultaneously being forcefully told by all media possible what we should see, hear and believe. But, we all know, very well, the dangers of... See more

I have been thinking primarily about how the pandemic has changed the way we think about cities and ecologies. What metaphors are actually useful in thinking about this moment, this era of rebuilding, of worldmaking to use a central theme for your project.

Only untrained minds are boring. Or: Nothing in the world is bereft of delight. Looking closely helps unlock this delight, this wonder, this doofy curiosity.