Reflections on Moving and Being In The Liminal Space | May 2022 — Change is the new, improved word for god, lovely enough to raise a song or implicate a sea of wrongs, mighty enough, like other gods, to shelter, bring together, and estrange us. Please, god, we seem to say, change us. — “Change” by Wendy Videlock Everything is moving: seasons through…

Last month, you read a beautiful reflection on conscientious creative consumption, written by our Creative Manager, Obiekwe Okolo. I loved the perspective that time given to a craft — ours or someone else’s — reflects, on one level, how fully we know it. I don’t disagree. Time spent is indivisible…

I spent the better part of last year reading volumes, of interviews and conversations with people I admire. Many of those people belong to a revered class of creatives throughout history — the masters. My two favorite books in this canon were “The Eye: How the World’s Most Influential Creative…

Obi asked me to write about how I overcome creative blocks, because sometimes we need to create when we don’t feel like it. Or in my case, I need to write but I don’t know what I want to say. Here’s how I bootstrap that moment: Define the space. When…

I was recently asked the question, “If you were to draw a trend line for your life since the middle of March, what would it look like?” I initially pictured the high and low spikes of a seismogram — an initial shock followed by moments of calm and then aftershock…

“My word at the start of 2020 was ‘shift.’ What seemed so full and mysterious sounds frail and boney now in light of what has been. We haven’t just shifted, we have changed. We are different. Expanded in empathy I hope, as some of us steady on with stable work, and more of us scrape by with no end in sight. More aware of each other, maybe, moving forward with renewed appreciation for our grocery stockists, healthcare workers, postal service, schoolteachers, ballot counters, and first responders, including those who fought wildfires for months on end, or protected protests while preventing violence and looting. It’s been complicated.”