phrases

Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit.

“Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It’s about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations — to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as parts of the “isness” of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.”

I don’t want all my work to be collaborative. I need most of the creative process to happen in my alone time.

When we over-index on documenting our lives, or infuse it with the aesthetic of cinema, scoring the climaxes, editing out the in-betweens that make up a life, we risk inverting its utility. Instead of being an existential hedge against dying, it becomes one against living. We end up believing things about our former selves that weren’t quite true, or doing it for the gram, or missing a hike before it’s even over. In our search for meaning we obscure it.

The artwork <n>Nature Knows No Kings</n> by artist <n>Mark Samsonovich</n>.

A quote by <n>Craig Parsons</n> from the book <n>The Interviews: Volume Two</n>.

A still from <n>Hirokazu Kore-eda</n>'s 1998 film, <n>After Life</n>.

Cover of <n>La place</n> by author <n>Annie Ernaux</n>.

A quote by author <n>Anne Lamott</n>, visualized by <n>Ayesha Ophelia</n>.

A quote by philosopher <n>Jiddu Krishnamurti</n>, published by <n>Quote Mirror</n>.

“Humans above all things that live upon earth are double: Mortal, because of the body, and Immortal, because of the soul.”

— Hermes Trismegistus

A 2019 projection for <n>Thom Yorke</n> on the facade of London's <n>Tate Modern</n>.

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." - Charles Bukowski

<n>Loosing My Creative Identity</n> by <n>Harry</n>, created using the <n>Procreate Dreams</n> app.

If there's a word to easily describe what you're doing or building, you're too late