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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.

They want me to get a range of intermediate shots, close-ups and reverse angles, all for safety’s sake. But I have always filmed only what I need for the screen, and nothing else. When you do open heart surgery, you don’t go for the appendix or toenails, you go straight for the beating heart.

he put me on an “idea contract.” Every month, I had to write a memo of what I thought was interesting in travel, and what I thought we should do stories on.

My friend (and contributor) Sienna told me to treat Scary Boots as a duty. Not a duty to myself, but to the world. It’s my duty to follow the vision I have and share Scary Boots with the world. I like that.

They understood that repetition wasn't redundancy, but ritual! And each telling was both the same story and a completely new experience, shaped by the particular moment, the specific voices, the quality of attention brought to bear.

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.

That return, to me, is important, and that that exists is a reason for me to do the work that I’m doing. I can’t really put words to it. It’s just a feeling, but it’s there. It makes me want to create, and that’s the thing that matters to me most on the planet is encountering art that makes me want to make art.