Now

Working on

Developing the Strata AW25 identity system — working through the visual language for the collection, runway staging, and press materials.

Running the East of Somewhere Residency, pairing artists with technologists to explore creative systems and digital ceremony. Applications are open.

Writing

Working on a long essay about the aestheticization of power in digital spaces — how online environments encode hierarchy through design. Slow going but getting somewhere.

Also drafting a book proposal on soft power aesthetics, examining how contemporary fashion operates as a political and cultural force.

Reading

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard. Taking notes on how he describes intimate spaces and what that means for digital environments.

Re-reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Always something new in it.

Listening

Mostly ambient and electronic lately. Don't Tap the Glass is the current playlist — metallic rhythms and soft vocal textures.

Thinking about

What it means to build in community rather than in isolation. The tension between public practice and private process. How to document work without performing it.

Digital third places — where people gather online not for content but for presence. What infrastructure makes that possible.