Cut. Paste. Breathe.
Creating new [analog] habits
I’m a sucker for structure. I love it — but honestly, I mostly need it. My mind is a busy place, always connecting dots, rearranging thoughts, spinning ideas into new ones. And when you’re constantly on, you eventually have to teach your body how to be off again. Years of overstimulation doesn’t just fade, so I’ve been looking for ways to slow things down a bit — to shift from that constant hum of urgency into something calmer, something that lets the nerves settle.
A daily collage.
Throughout the day, I collect fragments in my thriftshop: antique photos, vintage illustrations, scraps of typography or textures. No concept. No strategy. Just pieces that catch my eye. And at the end of the day, I sit down and put them together. Not to make something polished, but to create in the moment. To let intuition take the wheel, long enough for the noise to drop out and something real to cut through.
Today is attempt number one:
