looping transitions & sci-fi bodysuits
hello friends, on friday I had my first spring picnic in the park with Luna — and I felt briefly enchanted and shaken out of my homebody/hermit inertia. this...
a cafe dream, a zine, a new course
hello there, it’s spring and ramadan in Istanbul — which means holy month, and a daily bakery line at sunset for hot pide flatbread, straight from the oven....
after 10 years, otherworldly...
hello after a hibernation, and the birthing of a new business website
🗺️ on holding & centering
dear friends, this week is a curation from the archives — art made in darkness, and resources for slow recentering. I think of the role of the artist as...
💌 october artist digest
{💌 this is: my artist digest for October. I also send Friday letters (resuming next week) called guide.notes} dear friends, there’s a saying (attributed to...
🗺️ diving guides for the dark
curated treasures from scorpio world
🗺️ safety and freedom
safety and freedom is not either/or, but both/neither.
🗺️ your art, ecosystem, and alchemy
dear friends, I returned from our south of Turkey roadtrip on sunday and spent much of this week in a post-travel disorientation. today, I’m feeling almost...
💌 september: stars & sea
{💌 this is: my artist digest for September. I also send Friday letters (resuming next week) called guide.notes} dear friends, tonight I’m writing to you from...
🗺️ a mermaid castle, a cafe, a hammock
dear friends, our cafe plan is slowly materializing. on sunday, we stayed up late drawing a floor plan. this week, my partner ran around the city with his...
🗺️ inhabiting the world
dear friends, as autumn wanders into istanbul — softly and slowly, like a cat — I’ve been enjoying how ripe the days still feel. except that now, there’s...
🗺️ making space for monsters
dear friends, recently, work has felt like a many-headed hydra. the more I do, the more heads it regrows. I find myself obsessing, late at night, about which...
💌 three years in istanbul -end
{💌 this is: my artist digest for August. I also send Friday letters (resuming next week) called guide.notes} dear friends, the end of summer in Istanbul...
🗺️ honor your creative energy
dear friends, yesterday we drove to a forest outside of Istanbul, where I had my first Turkish-style barbecue — mangal. it was me, Luna, and three Turkish...
🗺️ build a labyrinth, not a funnel
hello friends, I’ve been centering in the realization that I want a business practice that feels, above all, deeply restful. that true prosperity and...
🗺️ sharing as release & falling into rhythm
dear kindred friends, these days I’ve been finding a sort of unexplainable ease in my Istanbul life - in that I feel comfortably inside of it, and not simply...
🗺️ internet as creative practice & morning ritual stonedial
dear friends of the web, last thursday I took a visiting tango friend to the prince islands via a 1 hour ferry ride from Istanbul, where we had a small...
🗺️ art & no audience, the emperor, web studies
dear creative friends, I’m happy to be writing you here after so long. recently, my summer has consisted of: starting a running routine 3x a week, and...
💌 july: mind polaroids
{💌 this is: my artist digest for July. I also send Friday letters (resuming next week!) called guide.notes} ~ dear friends, I definitely fell off the map for...
💌 april: hello from china
{💌 this is: my artist digest for April. I also send Friday letters called guide.notes} — Dear friends, hello from China. I’m currently in Hainan Island on...
🗺️ 41 | processing travel life
dear friend, I have travel brain fog, as well as too-many-people brain fog — both of which are strains of too-much-input brain fog. at the same time, I also...
🗺️ 40 | money as circle & tax comics
dear voyager friends, everything you see below, I drew on the 9 hour plane ride between Istanbul and Beijing. I arrived in my hometown this morning, cried...
🗺️ 39 | art is making a world to live in
dear kindred friends, next week I'll probably be writing you from an airport, en route to my hometown / motherland (hangzhou, china) where I'll be for three...
🗺️ 38 | obscurus, interview, at home
dear creative friends, these recent years, my experience of spring has felt like being involuntarily woken up from a delicious nap (aka, winter). I'm groggy,...
march: water, daisies, journey
hello friends, I'm writing to you from spring in Istanbul - just a few days before local elections, where the streets are filled with flags of politicans'...
🗺️ 37 | make art in the void
dear friends of the void, in recent days, I've been thinking about nervous system regulation as it relates to working for yourself -- and how the feeling of...
🗺️ 36 | survival mode + energy studies
dear wildfire friends, I've decided to write and send you this letter on Friday mornings. that way, it feels like a soft exhale, like sharing a leisurely cup...
🗺️ 35 | asymptotes, webs, & cards
dear kindred spirits, I'm not sure about you, but this week felt like a series of nose dives (hence this late letter). I found myself running towards...
🗺️ 34 | leaps of faith + job security
dear adventurer friends, I would've never embarked on this road, years ago, if I believed in "job security" as a concept. I'm more of a compulsive jumper,...
february: podcast & visions
hello there friends, this month I've been really deep in the work. sometimes this feels a little too much; too brainy-obsessive, like olympic swimming in my...
guide.notes 33 | botanical studies of internet magic
dear worldly friends, I woke up at 3:55am today, unexpectedly, (due to a terrorizing mosquito) and decided to start working in the dark. by 10am, I had...
guide.notes 32 | mushy mind, low tide days
dear kindred friends, after two weeks of writing everyday about world-building, this week I watched as my mind slowed down into the consistency of mushy...
guide.notes 31 | watery web worlds I want to swim in
Dear wilderness friends, I'm not sure where January went. I feel like I spent most of it thinking about work -- like living in a locked room with flying keys...
guide.notes 30 | visions of your digital world
dear wayfaring friends, hello there. how is your new year unfolding? I took a little long winter break, where I traveled, over-socialized with friends, and...
january: new worlds
hello friends, it's been a little while since I sent you my last digest. I know I tend to procrastinate/hermit from groups of people, so from now on, I'll...
guide.notes 29 | why build a world
dear worldly friends, this week, I've found myself in an sticky, melancholic mood, accompanied by a hum of anxiety. I know that when my mind wants to control...
guide.notes 28 | scorpio work secrets
dear friends of the creative wild, this sunday I'll turn thirty-two. this week, I've found myself in a trancelike, Scorpionic work flow -- living a rigorous...
guide.notes 27 | your greatest potential
dear wanderer friends, today I woke up to an rainy istanbul ten degrees colder than yesterday. after last week's amnesia, this week I stretched out the days...
guide.notes 26 | work amnesia
dear starburst friends, I played tour guide again last week, roaming Istanbul with a dear old friend I've known for 14 years. we adventured and feasted...
guide.notes 25 | a map of the big picture
dear spirit friends, last night I came home from a few days in Adana, an ancient Mediterranean city on the far eastern side of Turkey, close to Syria --...
guide.notes 24 | bad week remedy kit
dear kindred friends, I'm writing you a day late, savoring a gentle end to a bad week -- that is, I spent Monday-Wednesday walking through a "dark tunnel of...
guide.notes 23 | inner outer home world
dear friends of the web, I took this week off to spend time with my partner, who just returned from six months of Turkish military service. since stepping...
guide.notes 22 | ritual adventure
dear creative friends, I write to you from the first day of autumn rain in Istanbul. last Thursday I didn't write, because an old friend visited, and, in...
guide.notes 21 | useful & beautiful
dear earthly friends, sending you a brief note this week, from the middle of a migraine -- and a week of too much world. an old friend I knew from many lives...
guide.notes 20 | a secret project
dear gentle friends, last night I dreamed that I was inside a website. I was going in circles and ended up on the homepage, again and again. the structure of...
guide.notes 19 | creative focus deck
hello wilderness friends, this week I had strange, vivid dreams, and woke up before sunrise everyday to write and draw. it felt comforting to return to those...
guide.notes 18 | a nourishing diet
dear creative friends, I'm really trying to break the habit of writing these letters at 1am Thursday (my Friday) mornings, but for whatever reason, I tend to...
guide.notes 17 | new website birthing
dear ocean friends, this is guide.notes 17, a weekly letter on building internet universes to nourish the soul. I started redesigning my website today, after...
guide.notes 16 | summer days
dear web spirit friends, ~this is guide.notes 16, a letter on tending your magical ecosystem on the internet~ this week, I started drawing two pages of what...
guide.notes 15 | cyclical bodies
dear gentle friends of the void, ~this is guide.notes 15, a weekly letter on the labor of love of sustaining a rich creative life in the pixelated world~...