Preoccupations: Fall 2025

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Currently pondering, preoccupied, inspired, and investigating a plethora of notions. This season is:

Obsolete perfumes. Field recordings. Space Westerns. Rye. The Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer. Marine botany. Alexander McQueen’s Voss collection. Paul Celan. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Stamp comics. Demonstration. Shucking. Whistling glaciers. Braises. Amber. Professional Fakes. Embodiment. W.G. Sebald. Transit. Workplace families. Kurosawa. Wolf Hall. Oscillation. Tactillity. Cycling. The Gadget as Medium. Vespers. Palimpsests. Archives. Remixes. Velvet and leather. Cardamom. Trick shots.

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