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Rooted in a quiet, textural sensibility, this publication explores what inspires me through a collection of 100 influences drawn from literature, music, objects, experiences, and everyday, mundane moments. Rather than a catalog of references, it functions as a personal archive — an extension of perspective shaped by what feels intuitive, familiar, and emotionally resonant.

The work leans into the mundane and the "unaesthetic," finding value in unpolished, in-between moments. Influenced by the honesty of vernacular photography, it embraces imperfection and presence over performance. The book holds space for both who I am now and who I've been — treating identity as something continuous, layered, and occasionally unresolved.

I am drawn to the ordinary — the things that don't announce themselves, the moments that pass without much ceremony. My work tends to begin there, in the quiet accumulation of small observations: a texture, a feeling, a song that stays too long. I'm less interested in grand gestures than in what lingers.

A lot of what I make is an attempt to understand what I notice and why. Collecting, archiving, and arranging are as much a part of my process as any formal design decision — because for me, meaning often lives in the relationship between things rather than in the things themselves. I'm drawn to work that holds space for ambiguity, that doesn't resolve too neatly or perform too loudly.

I think about identity the way I think about editing — it's never finished, always in conversation with what came before. My practice sits in that tension: between the personal and the formal, the intuitive and the structured, the self I am now and the ones I've already been. I'm interested in what design can hold when it stops trying to be perfect and starts trying to be honest.