01 — An archive of slow essays.
On the writing
Cultural studies in perception and symbolic communication.
— The library
Selected, newest first.
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STUDIES IN IDENTITY · Nº 09
Unclaimed
Dutch in Spain, Spanish in Holland — and what the refusal taught me about seeing.
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READING FRAGMENT · Nº 03
Hers is the version that did not require an audience to organise itself. The audience arrived afterwards.
preserved from working notes, Vol. I
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STUDIES IN IDENTITY · Nº 08
Chemistry Is Not Attraction. It’s Recognition.
Some of the most important things in a life are felt before they are understood. We call the gap chemistry.
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STUDIES IN IDENTITY · Nº 07
On Uncovering, Not Building
Built brands begin from a brief. Uncovered ones begin from a person, or a place, or a body of work that is already operating with internal logic but has not yet been named.
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STUDIES IN IDENTITY · Nº 02
Needed, Not Wanted
An observation, drawn from a chorus of women. Built from reported speech — none of it the author’s own.
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READING FRAGMENT · Nº 04
The work that resists explanation is usually the work that explains the most about the person doing it.
preserved from session transcripts, October 2025
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STUDIES IN IDENTITY · Nº 01
On Reading the Day
Five photographs of a Mallorca day — and the day that actually happened around them.
What the studio keeps returning to —
- identity branding
- identity fatigue
- modern womanhood
- taste versus trends
- beauty and restraint
- hospitality as atmosphere
- ambition and loneliness
- the exhaustion of performance
- becoming visible without becoming false