Isaiah Zagar covered a South Street lot in mirror, tile, bottles and bicycle wheels. Step back and the pieces become faces. You have to step back from a wall at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens before it tells you what it is….
I took a solo trip to Pittsburgh with my Cincinnati loyalty fully intact. A wooden cable car from 1877 tested it.
A street mural, a set of letter sculptures, and a tribute to Bootsy Collins all came from one Cincinnati collective. This is where to see them.
I’m good at controlling how close people get to me. I’m starting to wonder what that’s actually cost me.
I went to Philadelphia to rest, and it turns out rest for me looks like feeding my brain a whole new city.
I don’t do well with beginner’s mind. I’m good at things. That’s not a brag — it’s actually the problem.
At 7am PST, I got the call I’d been promising her I’d hold her hand through. I wasn’t there. Grief is insane like that — it doesn’t follow the plans you whispered about in confidence.
You’re running laps while people sit still and call it love. On one-sided relationships, outgrowing your hometown, and the cost of building your own life.
We’re over drinking alcohol. We’re doing shrooms now.. well, kinda.
Nobody sits you down and explains what first-generation money actually feels like. The earning part, sure. Everything that comes after it, you figure out alone.