LinaMy name is Sarah.
My name is Sarah. I’m getting closer to accepting that fact. There was this book: Sarah, Plain and Tall. It explored themes of loneliness and abandonment. I’m also tall. I used to think about all the more beautiful names I could have.…
The Poetics of Reverie, Made Legible
A companion to “ I Dream for a Living ” There are books we love before we read them, and Gaston Bachelard wrote two of them. The Poetics of Space. The Poetics of Reverie. The titles alone feel like passwords — you read them on a spine and…
JASON L SILVAThe Poetics of Reverie, Made Legible
A companion to “ I Dream for a Living ” There are books we love before we read them, and Gaston Bachelard wrote two of them. The Poetics of Space. The Poetics of Reverie. The titles alone feel like passwords — you read them on a spine and…
LinaTwo Ways to Hold an Atom Still
One was cold, golden, and deafening. The other was warm, bare, and almost silent. Both were quantum computers. I learned more through that sensory experience than any research paper or deck could ever teach me. “Cool. Loud. Shiny.…
Capsules Manifesto
Storytelling has two permanences: it exists to drive human connection and our search for meaning, and it has never been content with its current form. It thrives on hairs raised and tears cried. From the cave walls of Lascaux to the…
One Project, a Thousand Pixels
This is a construction project. Not the building. The information. The decisions, the drawings, the permits, the promises. On day one it's a solid thing. Everyone in one room, one plan, one picture. Then the meeting ends. And the project…
Frozen Grief
My colleague Martín was intense and animated. He was a great storyteller, always pausing just long enough at key moments to build the suspense, then finishing with an ending that left you laughing, or in tears, or simply bewildered by the…
A Mother's love
A Mother’s love is like no other Not a Father, Sister or Brother Part Teacher Part Preacher The kind of love that only can reach ya A Mother’s love can span the oceans Touch inside to your deepest emotions Watched you grow up thru the…
My name depends on who is calling.
My name depends on who is calling. Steffi. Stefanie. Stefanel. In Australia, sometimes Schnitty. Sometimes Schnitzel. And sometimes people call me Atelier. Which is strange. As if I became the thing I built. That's like calling a fisherman…