Claude as a studio assistant

I was looking at my friend Mert Hürtürk’s new blog, Intromert, and came across an entry titled Low Place Like Home, where he shared geometric sketches made with Processing, a tool purpose-built for artists to …

From one piece to the next

I am watching a video of Isamu Noguchi explaining his work on YouTube, and the part where he explains the progression of his work felt inspiring to me. I once concerned myself with working with space. I used to …

Going back to stone

I am watching a short video on Isamu Noguchi by SFMoMA and I particularly found his remarks on the limitations of the industry relevant. If you want to live and work in an industrialized situation, you have to use …

You do not talk about the subject of your work or it vanishes

I am reading Joan Didion’s book Let Me Tell You What I Mean and she wrote about the subject in creative work: This business of the subject is tricky. Whether they are painters or photographers or composers or …

Acute perception of something immense and yet very delicate at the same time

I am reading When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, and he writes about the French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, describing his ability to concentrate for long hours: He could begin …