23 thoughts and lessons from 2023
1. When your ego dissolves, the pain might not go away, but the suffering does. 2. Empathy means: We don’t have to understand; we just have to believe. 3. I thought fiction was about understanding, now...
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I’ll be there for awhile. Please join me as I, on my 11th year as a photographer, attempt to make a photobook that’s also a book about photography. I’ll be documenting the whole process on a new Ghost...
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Where do I start? I’m reading a lot again. Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, Milan Kundera, David Foster Wallace. I am so hungry for words. I want to read ten books at once but it’s impossible. But I’m...
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small unknown complex life
Solo dinner in Tokyo, January 2024 I don’t know if it’s just me but I always get a warm and fuzzy feeling in my gut whenever I stumble upon an interesting blog written by someone who is living their...
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I’m always looking for people who use interesting ways to say things or who use interesting ways to live life. In some weird way that keeps me alive. At my core I am interested in people and their...
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Tokyo Story
I cried a lot watching Tokyo Story, my heart unravelling with the film. The way Ozu does it is masterful. There is always this sense that you can’t know what to expect next. A tension that clings to...
View Articlea letter by Georgia O’Keeffe
“To Anita Pollitzer Canyon, Texas 11 September 1916 Tonight I walked into the sunset — to mail some letters — the whole sky — and there is so much of it out here — was just blazing — and grey blue...
View Articlegoing into hiding
I enjoy not being found. It’s my way of coping with an external world that is largely unknown and potentially dangerous. ‘I don’t want to be found, seen or heard from’ is a thought I constantly have....
View Articlesolitude and humans
Back from Japan (reluctantly). Having a blog makes you realise how quickly time passes. Easily a month can pass by without any new entries here. But that month would feel like a blink to me. So I did...
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casual poet library
Since my last post a month ago, I have fallen into a new adventure — I’m building a shared library in Singapore. It all started from this Instagram post. I found a shop space within three days of the...
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Time is bizarre and life equally so. So many mixed feelings about these two things and so many thoughts that cannot find expression because I’m just not good enough of a writer. So I fall back on...
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