Mind of Sir

Jewelry by <n>Les Lalanne</n>, photographed by <n>David William Baum</n>.

<n>Digitization LXVII</n> from the <n>Digitization</n> project, an ongoing archive of analog materials.

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

<n>Green Passage</n> by photographer <n>Paolo Abate</n>, curated by <n>Fubiz</n>.

Handwritten note by author <n>Kirsten Robinson</n>.

<n>These days</n>, a photograph by <n>Cho Gi-Seok</n> for <n>Dazed Korea</n>.

A <n>Starlink Satellite Train</n> captured by photographer <n>Samil Cabrera</n>.

<n>The Experiential Learning Cycle</n>, a diagram by <n>Andrea Mignolo</n>.

The <n>Chrysiridia rhipheus</n>, also known as the Madagascan sunset moth.

Cinematic image exploring color in filmmaking, referencing <n>DaVinci Resolve</n> software.

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”


— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

A <n>Butterfly Lumen Print</n> by artist <n>Adam Fuss</n>.

Artwork by <n>Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison</n>.

<n>Vintage Butterfly Sketch II</n> by artist <n>June Erica Vess</n>.

You will receive a body. You may like it or not but it is yours for the entire time you’re on Earth. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called “life.” Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much as the process as the experiment that ultimately works. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. Then you can go on to the next lesson. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” has become “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that is, again, better than “here.” Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need – what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. You will forget all this. You can remember whenever you want.