dear stranger-friends,
the sun arrived in istanbul today - after days of darkness and wetness - and it feels like i'm slowly emerging from an underwater cave.
i spent christmas and new years here, alone -- with chaos machine of a black cat -- working on two films: an animated love poem about sleep, and a distillation of my 2021 in 119 seconds. this last week, i've been simultaneously apartment hunting in this spiderweb of a city, concocting a new course on daily self-care rituals (art of wellbeing) - and reviving an old one (creative circle).
in case you'd like to join, this winter season of creative circle will begin in 3 days - on monday.
it's a combo of creative community + group coaching -- by me -- on any of your personal projects that need a little push. either way, the ship will sail. see you on the other side.
sending you bright, dazed days
of not knowing if it's winter
or summer, real life
or a dream,
kening
00 | inspiration log
watching: the club (netflix series) - which is set in istanbul 1950s
watched: don't look up (film) - i enjoyed this
listening to: 50 ways to leave your lover - cover by sarah dugas
listening to: lots of turkish songs like this and this and this.
00 | inner resources
everything i know about starting a morning routine - from 7 years ago (a 2022 version is coming)
why i don't use email or social media before noon - from 6 years ago (now i'm even more radical...)
365 days of moon journaling - i still do this sometimes
do whatever you want - from the era when i first found my creative flow
flow comes from your place of stillness - from 1 year ago
1 | creative circle | 3 spots available, starts january 17
this is the second round of creative circle -- a 6 week, small-group community to help bring your projects into the world — while sharing in the journey and process together.
2 | 2021: art & life in 119 seconds | a film
a two minute film of my 2021: all the art I made, all the life I lived across 6 countries.
3 | variation on the word sleep, by margaret atwood | an animated love poem
this is a labor of love / wedding gift for my friend amelia - an animated love poem which took me 31 hours - for 1 min and 22 seconds.
5 | how i made this: variation on the word sleep | a process post
a process post about how I made this animation in 3 days.
4 | art of wellbeing | a 6 week course, starting january 23
this is a 6 week, guided journey into building daily self-care rituals that can nourish your life — and everything in it. first module (on sleep) is free - I'll be posting it this sunday.
6 | istanbul courtyard, winter | animated drawing
the view from my bedroom this month - an apartment where i spent christmas and new years alone with a black cat.
7 | the feeling of flying to istanbul | animated drawing
i drew this on the plane from amsterdam to istanbul - the feeling of entering a place with enough magnetism to pull the fragmented pieces of me together.
7 | black cat istanbul life | drawing
the dominating character and force of my istanbul life thus far.
thank you from the spiderweb crevices of this old city for reading my weekly digest. write me back anytime.