Design and art are both about embodiment. Design is about posture, and art is about gesture. Design is about presentation, art is about what is presented.

Minimalism is saying only the necessary things, and is motivated by deference and grace. Brutalism is not saying at all, and is motivated by fear and severity.‍ Minimalism is a good thing, but it can become its own indulgence. It should guide form, but shouldn’t become an end.

Honesty is a designer’s greatest asset. You decide to design when you're dissatisfied with convenient answers. You dig to the root, and you trust that the right forms and structures will filter upward. This is intuition, or clarity.

Twenty minutes into the sauna, after I’ve built up a good sweat, my dad takes a seat to my left. The sauna has a window in the front, and a digital panel, but besides that it’s a wooden box, barely big enough for the both of us. Last year I came home and it was here.

We stop to watch the view. // Small movement // Grasshopper on the rock Animates the void

The headlights open a clearing ahead like a page of a book from childhood