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Because the erotic does not offer guarantees. Sometimes it leads us to joy. Sometimes to heartbreak. Often to both, simultaneously. But it always leads us somewhere real.

Each was an answer to an unanswerable call.

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.

The erotic decision is the one that defies linearity and invites metamorphosis

It is the decision to let yourself be undone by what draws you in.

I really believe that a piece of design should reward the second look, the slow encounter. Wit and beauty are the hooks, but subtlety is what keeps people engaged.

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.

What I mean is that with its blunt authority the New Oxford definition of "pathos" -- "a quality that evokes pity or sadness" -- shuts down the conversation, it shuts down your thinking about the word, while the Webster's version gets your wheels turning: it seems so much more provisional -- "that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity,... See more