welcome, creative wayfaring spirit of the webs.

the bare ingredients for a newborn creative baby

a map of all parts of the creative process

vulnerability is a muscle of accepting potential pain

a process i adapted for myself for overcoming inertia

on knowing the art of restraint and letting go

work like you play — work and play and rest are not just things that we do, they are also feelings.

don’t blame your lack of abundance on the external world, blame it on your own lack of self worth

there are no rules to making art, except this: do your thing, and do it everyday.

When I first started doing creative projects, I would often get sucked into this corrosive cycle— grandiosity, inertia, guilt— and eventually become paralyzed. In this post, I write about how the paralysis happens, why it happens, and some strategies I've used to overcome it. 

on knowing the art of restraint and letting go

in order to make the most of a day, a life, an endeavor?

trusting in the resonance of wants / needs / highest good

on trusting in process and embracing the pathless journey of the creative life

trusting in the resonance of wants / needs / highest good

there are no rules to making art, except this: do your thing, and do it everyday.

When it comes to undertaking any daunting task — building a business from scratch, creating a piece of creative work, or aiming for some other ambitious goal - it’s too easy to get bogged down in the details. As a long-suffering perfectionist with a submerged urge to prove myself to the world, I tend to say to myself: OK, let’s take this from the top, and make sure everything I make is perfect and beautiful before I continue. 

the bare ingredients for a newborn creative baby

facing your repressed creative energy

a map of all parts of the creative process

on trusting in creative lifecycles and the phases of a project, and letting your creative seeds be born on their own time.

the antidote to overplanning, creative paralysis, and time pressure— to live in the creative flow.

why you’re feeling stuck, and how to get back in creative flow — by aligning with your creative metabolism and workflow, and tuning into creative birth/death cycles.

how to cultivate an embodied sense of the creative self — through a framework of daily body and creative rituals

like waking up drugged and hungover, except not in the body, but in the soul

a process i adapted for myself for overcoming inertia

I started my design and coaching studio last fall— chipping away on it during early mornings before work and on weekends- but it’s only been 3 months since I left my job to do this full time. Since I try to be so deliberate about planning my goals, I see the review process as the closing of that loop. At the end of every month, I sit down to look at what I’ve accomplished, and I articulate the lessons to take with me as I continue to grow. Here’s what I learned from months 1-3. 

first impressions of an emotional experience without words

on actively relating to art, culture & knowledge

reading this felt like reading a translation of my life. a fresh, funny story for displaced souls

my review of DP — which I binged in a weekend — about a deserter pursuit unit in korean military service, and the system’s abuses of power.

my review of a wonderfuly complex yet light-hearted korean drama about an autistic lawyer and her trials & tribulations (season 1)

my review/analysis of The Disciple (2020) — a film about the journey of an Indian classical vocalist — as a portrait and guide for how NOT to be a struggling artist.

my digestions of Jordan Peele’s 2022 film, Nope — on alien-monster as metaphor, and a spectacle culture to kill us all

a book review — a story of two refugees in love — in an unnamed city at war — from the slow & sharp collapse of their normality to a life of constant movement — through doors — that lead them from one world to the next.

the most important relationship in this show is with chess