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Being amongst Swaths and swaths of antiquity Is the deepest relief I am As ignorant, as nameless, As collective, as individuated, As proximate to slivers of knowledge As anyone here I can sit, anonymous awe, and breathe

I am feeling the passersby of information I am invoking cloudless blue sky beloved astronomer Patient for nightfall I am considering how alchemy Is a matter of sufficient energy How entropy is a matter of rearrangment How simple we lay it I am settling in…

Ramble of work I believe very little in destination Not some grand conviction Just the evidence of experience Stuck in meander

Relief of being somewhere unknown Place of no pretense No face to put on Tension giving way Some final sigh dropping expectation Into the slowest, kindest aimless walk Eyes panning, absorbing Little joys

I trace a flightpath portion - Luminous bird, underbelly Saturated in sunset I recall my childhood hand Palming a flashlight in the dark, My own transparency Glowing orange through

I have not had a winter to emerge from - Nothing for years and years and years Slow, slow, sudden, wild springtime Glorious as anyone says Bud-green, branching, blooming They do this every year?

Looping split of a rush (Crack a window) spilling apologetics Instructional essentials, ESSENTIALS I will utterly distract myself Utterly (momentous) fleeting Lavish confession

Devising clocks, calendars, Unsettling shapes of time Boundary-laden Weighty items Atomized Totemic miseries and mercies

Keep it light, loose and bizzare One is all I need (I can encrypt a zoo) Like a precondition, forests were first.

Artless rummage, material Gymnast Flipping, flipping through scraps Needy, needing a firm hold Choice in slippery grasp

Lacewing, snowdrop Wanting an imprint, Delightful curl on a vinerung Wintry, brittle on the slat Loose huddle of intention Something (meadow breaker) to regard

Crossword Heatmap Inspiration: Curiosity initially around what the most common crossword layout is.

Over the past decade I've lived in 14-ish apartments, 7 cities and 3 countries.

Rising Temperature Inspiration: Desire to learn some more about LLM outputs and the 1:1 temperature mapping to the warming globe was a salient analogy for things melting down Description: I repeatedly asked an LLM to complete the sentence “Climate change…

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver, wonder of a poet That quote tumbles around my mind some nights.

Creature: beloved, bumpy, Interleaving thing Beside you, groundling, A moderate rest.

Wavy thrum, splendid Blueish afternoon Torso's grassy imprint Eyelids oscillating scales Of exhaustion (exhalation) Wind and treeshade Mimicry Noisy, noiseless and very, very welcome Slow heart and a lovely wait

Of the after-fold Shadow and shadow-dog Approximate likeness Same / except - a pattern (Certainly not mine) Triangles in image, even In cobblestone vanishing Finely attuned, seeking Rhythms, puzzles, variant chords Gnawing, ancient knack

I, you (we) cast lives Into gaps of printed words We brush flows over aging pigment Narrative creatures that we are Movement, movement We need motion, arcing, Action to freedom I want to tell us (you) A story in perspective, a new story In perspective (How

Fingerprint grooves pinning Forcing a needle forward Delicate, etching slice Luminous pressure Pushing a pathway A form of future Intended

Shaggy watershed, blankets of firs And blurry pines, cosine slopes With a sunny, windy chill

Farthest seat from the front Folded into bright pages of Sketched patterns Recombining, calibrating Edges and curved entries An implicit care Ears absorbing a room A type of translation

I visited some familiar trees Saw the old footholds, grips, Stretches, contortions and cradles.

Whether I worry or wonder or wear regret I fold in the revel of the repossesed Were I laughing or living or laying awake I'd offer my love, my rivery fate

Silence never felt creative Noise Noise did its part Clambering nonsense finding the spirit

I have a couple of young kids (6-month old and 2 year old), so my days of burning time watching NBA games is long gone.

Around 2020, I noticed beige website design popping up.

Do the mountains know they are slowly drowning?

A round, tumbling sort of breeze, Spilling tops of sand mounds, Filling pockets.

From a balcony (lazy perch), My eyes wander out, And lose sight of little.

Miles into the wheeling - Cross of a problem Looking like a loop.

Climbing Trees Inspiration: The incredible trees that I've had the luck to climb in my life Description: Wanted a place to collect some of my favorite trees.

Cistercian Ciphers Inspiration: (1) The Hungarian-monk-founded Cistercian school I went to in Texas and (2) the code and cool project page on Cistercian numerals by Ákos Nikházy Description: It turns out the Cistercians (an order of Catholic monks) created

Island Peakscapes Inspiration: A series of beautiful maps created by Chaney Swiney, composed with excellent colors, typography and framing Description: Felt like this was such a cool type of map that I wanted to try my hand at it.

Image Sampling Inspiration: The fascinating, sometimes disorienting, image processing by the Japanese artist Kensuke Koike (see image below) Description: So much of the statistical world involves building a model: reducing reality to a more manageable num…

Line Drawings Inspiration: (1) The beautiful, mazelike, single-line drawings by the Polish architect and engineer Wacław Szpakowski (2) the serenity of Japanese zen gardens and (3) these kinetic art sand tables by Sisyphus Description: Wanted to make some…

Childhood Dictionary Inspiration: My little 1-year-old walking around, discovering brand new sounds and words and formulations - really cool to transcribe some of her original words : ) Description: There are thousands of known languages out there which is

Direct Etymologies Inspiration: The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology edited by C.T.

Polygon or circle?

Coalescing Text Inspiration: Exhibit at Musée de Tahiti et des îles Description: Just wanted to have fun animating letters, trying to come up with something interesting, slow, evolving.

Overgrowth There are dim pockets in the woods, quiet places.

Lost or never held, abysmal Dispersal, ragnarök dream or dreamt.

I kindle a kind of kinship King in knitted koi

A curious, unkempt absorption, Logs chopped, soaked and ragged, Untimely, and no type of kindling.

Trained mind, grooved, Finding and finding again Pathways, turns, all known.

Hollow pain, Back locked in a shallow angle, Buckled tendons, Collapsing left knee, Sharp jolt, Eyes driven shut.

Billowy whiplash of a life tethered, Knifed free.

Spokes in revolution, Inordinate time, numerical sign Switch-switch-switched Backed up - no - reversed (no) Illusion of frame.

Variety is a trick of reconsideration.

I want to wield clarity, motion, Unburdened scythe-grip I want to be mid-field, certain, Sweating In the churn of unearthed minutiae