THE JOURNAL
The work, the thinking, and what it actually takes to keep making things. Building in public, one piece at a time.
I didn't plan to live in Taiwan. I came for a conference, the world closed, and leaving stopped being an option.
Six years later I've had several exhibitions and built a creature design practice from scratch, in a country where my language skill is still lacking, without an art school background, without a clear path forward when I arrived. Here's what I've learned: your context isn't a detour. It's the raw material.
The mechanics are simple. Everything after day three isn't. Here's exactly how to set up, what committing to an output standard actually means, and the one step most people skip that turns a challenge month into lasting progress.
There's a version of January where you close out the month with seventeen creatures instead of thirty-one and still walk away changed. This is about that version — what daily art challenges actually do to your creative practice, why your style surfaces under pressure, and why finishing was never really the point.