harvest week #14

under peaceful conditions the warlike man attacks himself

happy new year!

last year i lost my voice, i haven’t written to you since may, my bad! i hope you’re all well. I wrote to you, banging at my keys, the clicking keys a distant memory. this december, i was “offline” if you don’t count my 40,000 hours of youtube.

i’m mostly doing well. haven’t processed my year yet. i really don’t know how to.

places, faces, voices, moments… the memories unnerve me but this might help.

last year, a friend described obsession to me as an act of a person seeking to assert control over their life. i won’t project any judgment on the question of control and the need for it. i will share what i have been obsessed with in 2025.

january

severence. how can one not be completely taken by this show? we went places with this show, watch parties, dress up (i never do cosplay), themed snacks, fan theory deeep dives.. give it a try if you haven’t already. apple tv really needs to do better at promo.

february

i ’d been looking for an apartment for idk, 3-4 months, i finally got one, which means out with the old. getting rid of things is hard, accumulating things is easy, this exercise made me more mindful of what i let take up space in my home. i spent WAAAY too much time on vinted and leboncoin.

march

a new place mean’t i finally had the opportunity to creatively direct my own, and i went all in, i had looked at every shippable household item in continental europe and sometimes beyond, but worth it, i love my place. i scoured stores, flea markets, vintage furniture markets, instragram, design subreddits, furnishing was my life in ways you can’t imagine. i came out a better man.

april

my annual trip to zambia, every month a good time to visit, this one was a very inspired trip, i’m obssessed with it growing creative scene, musically, visually, culinary everything is so many leaps forward everytime i visit, it means a lot to me to be able to experience the country that birthed me and seeing friends and family is always refreshing too! zambia 2027 group trip, lets goo lol

may

i have this goal of owning a private collection of art in a building i codesign with an architect i like, so i started early. (un)fortuately i was introduced to catawiki, a gamified online auction platform, so i dipped my toes, then feet, then body, and now i’m a collector. i also have talented friends i like to support. the responsiblity of ownership taught me framing is VERY important.

june

post-olympic sadness left me with a live sports-shaped hole in my heart, and what better than tennis to serve as a fitting replacement. i was lucky enough to see a couple of matches of the french open and when i wasn’t i was glued to francetv, don’t we thank the heavens for francetv lol

july

when in europe one must partake in the pagan ritual of eurosummermaxxxing lol, i get why people worship(ped) the sun, i feel like such a different person, i’m reading more, i’m out and walking i love how things like under the umbrella and saaaace lean into picnics and outdoor events, i really enjoyed those! shoutout to friends in paris with balconies too haha grateful for the community i’ve built that adds to the vibes.

august

this is hard to explain, i don’t remember how i acquired a 2nd set of playing cards but best believe any flat surface i was exposed to was used to play solitaire, i think this is my comfort game thinking back you can play it alone, anytime, but unfortunately, the physical version is a logistically unsustainable (too much prep inbetween games).

september

we love love, and aug-sept was a celebration of that. someone needs to write a midtwenties guide to being a wedding guest, if invitee prep is a lot i can only imagine how it must be on the other side, elyssa gave us a sneak peak! my hunt for dress shoes, etc., was nothing close, but believe i was invested in looking and feeling great as i celebrate some big days of some of my favourite people.

october

at some point i figured digital djing wasn’t hard enough, so i’ll go through the hurculian effort of learning to dj with vinyl, why? idk, anyway i can do it now but not without falling out of love with djing, having to rearrange my 200+ collection and spend countless hours cueing the same track to try and get a good transition, fun! fun vinyl set coming soon? also wwllmm was soo helpful.

november

this one is kinda random, i take lots of pictures, naturally i’ve been consuming more photographs, but it’s insane how into photobooks i was in november, i ended up making my own (this deserves its own post tbh). favorites? lusaka street by alick phiri with the midas touch of sana and impossible island by henry roy are some favourites.

december

my brother was visiting for the holidays, so i turned into a tourist in my own city. i swear i saw so many exhibitions, rip to my camera roll, it also made me notice how underwhelming#footnote-1 a lot of translations from french to english are. favourites? musee arts et metiers, the engineer in me was very happy. the louvre was underwhelming, new cartier foundation is mint too.

my favourite thing about these obsessions was the people who came along, many of these weren’t solo efforts, i had friends just as obssessed although i like to believe i was obsessed in a better, more healthy, has talked to my therapist kind of way, regardless it’s nice to be in the moment, having a time with people.

another obsession of mine is spiralling as i listen to alt-j - what a time! this will be relevant a little later..

now, i swear i didn’t intentionally write anything since may, i had ideas, thoughts, moments but it never came.. here are things i typed that i feel should interact with someones retinas.

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i met someone who told me about positive ions, i found this theory pretty compelling..

as i got ready to send this i had the thought to make banana bread, it was just a thought. i’ve done away with it. 

this and many other reasons are why i love film, i hate my shots because 

                          here’s a glimpse into the past. 

                          i’ve hoarding my film, i’ve had this sense of longing for idk

i thought of restoring another bike 

have a lovely summer, i might write more i might not write at all, we’ll see! 

i’m also really in love with the talking heads!
                         they have two songs; once in a life time, this must be the place

                         they to me describe to me or at least paint a picture of domestic bliss

something is always dying and being born - lorde 

ok, i wrote this second part in june              off the back of a sick dj set 

week drained me, i’m on a plane, what did i do?

life can be so mundane but it can also be really lovely 

this follows the format of one of my favourite songs by alt j 

lyrics.

happy new year xx