For the past two weeks I’ve embarked on a self-designed, self-directed creative trek as part of Kening Zhu’s labyrinth community. A trek is similar to the popular concept of a “challenge”, but less “this is my goal, and I have to do it every day no matter what” and more “this is my intention, and […]

Sometimes I forget how far I’ve come as a dancer. Not in the sense that I forget the milestones I’ve hit, but in the sense that I forget how difficult certain aspects of dance used to be for me. In dance, freestyling — as in, intuitively reacting to music and dancing without pre-arranged choreography — […]

During my time living in San Francisco, I picked up a new way of interacting with others that didn’t exist in my Asian immigrant household. Going to talk therapy had started to become normalized, and the book “Non-Violent Communication” was being read by every person I know. Not only was it cool to openly talk […]

I once met a dancer at a dance intensive. Actually I didn’t meet her, she was singled out by one of the instructors for being exceptional. In a room full of dancers trying their hardest to keep up or step up, her movement looked effortless, intentional, and truly embodied. It wasn’t that she had impeccable […]

A couple days ago, I spent the entire day doing web design, work that I genuinely enjoy and am interested in. But afterwards, instead of mental satisfaction and creative fulfillment, I felt like shit. Like a physical, visceral, UGGHHHHHH I don’t wanna do this anymore. A similar thing happened last year, when I spent the […]

I really have no idea what I’m doing. Over 3 years ago, I left my so-called cushy job as a software engineer, at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. I told everyone that I left to start my own business and pursue my art, which was true, in part. So aspirational, right? […]

I’m enrolled in this year’s online cohort for Type West, a yearlong educational program for designing typefaces. The program is hosted by Letterform Archive, a creative heaven based in San Francisco for design nerds everywhere. Our first project was to create a type revival. First things first — wtf is a type revival?? Here’s the definition given by one […]