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If the condo is on fire, I would grab the pouch of handwritten notes: James’s atomic specks, Mom’s balanced strokes, Dad’s whipping cursive. Their souls feel implanted in these lines, whether it's Agong’s thoughts on world religions or Mom’s directions to Ann Arbor. As we’ve let penmanship slide for digital tools, handwriting has become its most intriguingly expressive. No more universal Spencerian decorum; it's a free-for-all of personality, and I'm drawn to the honesty of chicken scratches. That’s why I made the Glyph series: this alphabet that connects us with people across nearly 4,000 years is in a most soulful phase. 

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Totality! Celestial alignments above and below. A new phase of life near my adorable parents.

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In the nearby city of Turku, grids of these now-secular Swedish Advent candelabras line the windows of apartments and office buildings alike, casting a meditative and communal mood on the streets like a temple.

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Behind the scenes of Light the Barricades in Los Angeles in 2019. When it traveled to Charlotte, the Doubt lightbox happened to stand in the backdrop of a wedding ceremony. They covered the word.