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💌 april: hello from china
April 30, 2024
{💌 this is: my artist digest for April. I also send Friday letters called guide.notes} — Dear friends, hello from China. I’m currently in Hainan Island on...
🗺️ 41 | processing travel life
April 26, 2024
dear friend, I have travel brain fog, as well as too-many-people brain fog — both of which are strains of too-much-input brain fog. at the same time, I also...
🗺️ 40 | money as circle & tax comics
April 19, 2024
dear voyager friends, everything you see below, I drew on the 9 hour plane ride between Istanbul and Beijing. I arrived in my hometown this morning, cried...
🗺️ 39 | art is making a world to live in
April 12, 2024
dear kindred friends, next week I'll probably be writing you from an airport, en route to my hometown / motherland (hangzhou, china) where I'll be for three...
🗺️ 38 | obscurus, interview, at home
April 6, 2024
dear creative friends, these recent years, my experience of spring has felt like being involuntarily woken up from a delicious nap (aka, winter). I'm groggy,...
march: water, daisies, journey
March 30, 2024
hello friends, I'm writing to you from spring in Istanbul - just a few days before local elections, where the streets are filled with flags of politicans'...
🗺️ 37 | make art in the void
March 22, 2024
dear friends of the void, in recent days, I've been thinking about nervous system regulation as it relates to working for yourself -- and how the feeling of...
🗺️ 36 | survival mode + energy studies
March 15, 2024
dear wildfire friends, I've decided to write and send you this letter on Friday mornings. that way, it feels like a soft exhale, like sharing a leisurely cup...
🗺️ 35 | asymptotes, webs, & cards
March 8, 2024
dear kindred spirits, I'm not sure about you, but this week felt like a series of nose dives (hence this late letter). I found myself running towards...
🗺️ 34 | leaps of faith + job security
February 29, 2024
dear adventurer friends, I would've never embarked on this road, years ago, if I believed in "job security" as a concept. I'm more of a compulsive jumper,...
february: podcast & visions
February 23, 2024
hello there friends, this month I've been really deep in the work. sometimes this feels a little too much; too brainy-obsessive, like olympic swimming in my...
guide.notes 33 | botanical studies of internet magic
February 15, 2024
dear worldly friends, I woke up at 3:55am today, unexpectedly, (due to a terrorizing mosquito) and decided to start working in the dark. by 10am, I had...
guide.notes 32 | mushy mind, low tide days
February 8, 2024
dear kindred friends, after two weeks of writing everyday about world-building, this week I watched as my mind slowed down into the consistency of mushy...
guide.notes 31 | watery web worlds I want to swim in
February 1, 2024
Dear wilderness friends, I'm not sure where January went. I feel like I spent most of it thinking about work -- like living in a locked room with flying keys...
guide.notes 30 | visions of your digital world
January 25, 2024
dear wayfaring friends, hello there. how is your new year unfolding? I took a little long winter break, where I traveled, over-socialized with friends, and...
january: new worlds
January 18, 2024
hello friends, it's been a little while since I sent you my last digest. I know I tend to procrastinate/hermit from groups of people, so from now on, I'll...
guide.notes 29 | why build a world
November 23, 2023
dear worldly friends, this week, I've found myself in an sticky, melancholic mood, accompanied by a hum of anxiety. I know that when my mind wants to control...
guide.notes 28 | scorpio work secrets
November 17, 2023
dear friends of the creative wild, this sunday I'll turn thirty-two. this week, I've found myself in a trancelike, Scorpionic work flow -- living a rigorous...
guide.notes 27 | your greatest potential
November 9, 2023
dear wanderer friends, today I woke up to an rainy istanbul ten degrees colder than yesterday. after last week's amnesia, this week I stretched out the days...
guide.notes 26 | work amnesia
November 2, 2023
dear starburst friends, I played tour guide again last week, roaming Istanbul with a dear old friend I've known for 14 years. we adventured and feasted...
guide.notes 25 | a map of the big picture
October 20, 2023
dear spirit friends, last night I came home from a few days in Adana, an ancient Mediterranean city on the far eastern side of Turkey, close to Syria --...
guide.notes 24 | bad week remedy kit
October 13, 2023
dear kindred friends, I'm writing you a day late, savoring a gentle end to a bad week -- that is, I spent Monday-Wednesday walking through a "dark tunnel of...
guide.notes 23 | inner outer home world
October 6, 2023
dear friends of the web, I took this week off to spend time with my partner, who just returned from six months of Turkish military service. since stepping...
guide.notes 22 | ritual adventure
September 29, 2023
dear creative friends, I write to you from the first day of autumn rain in Istanbul. last Thursday I didn't write, because an old friend visited, and, in...
guide.notes 21 | useful & beautiful
September 15, 2023
dear earthly friends, sending you a brief note this week, from the middle of a migraine -- and a week of too much world. an old friend I knew from many lives...
guide.notes 20 | a secret project
September 8, 2023
dear gentle friends, last night I dreamed that I was inside a website. I was going in circles and ended up on the homepage, again and again. the structure of...
guide.notes 19 | creative focus deck
September 1, 2023
hello wilderness friends, this week I had strange, vivid dreams, and woke up before sunrise everyday to write and draw. it felt comforting to return to those...
guide.notes 18 | a nourishing diet
August 25, 2023
dear creative friends, I'm really trying to break the habit of writing these letters at 1am Thursday (my Friday) mornings, but for whatever reason, I tend to...
guide.notes 17 | new website birthing
August 11, 2023
dear ocean friends, this is guide.notes 17, a weekly letter on building internet universes to nourish the soul. I started redesigning my website today, after...
guide.notes 16 | summer days
August 4, 2023
dear web spirit friends, ~this is guide.notes 16, a letter on tending your magical ecosystem on the internet~ this week, I started drawing two pages of what...
guide.notes 15 | cyclical bodies
July 28, 2023
dear gentle friends of the void, ~this is guide.notes 15, a weekly letter on the labor of love of sustaining a rich creative life in the pixelated world~...
guide.notes 14 | artist-entrepreneur
July 21, 2023
dear wayfinding friends, ~this is guide.notes 14, where I obsess over the process of growing fruit-bearing, shade-giving orchards in a concrete jungle...
guide.notes 13 | declogging creative metabolism
July 14, 2023
dear seeker-friends, ~this is guide.notes #13, a weekly newsletter on opening the creative deluge, and building a digital world that nourishes your worldly...
guide.notes 12 | artist child, business adult
July 7, 2023
dear magical seashell-seeking friends, ~this is guide.notes 12, a weekly email on caring for, and channeling -- your creative spirit/essence/patronus to roam...
a creative life in motion
July 5, 2023
dear stranger-friends, I'm writing you this artist digest from a sticky summer night in Istanbul. since my last letter, I traveled too much, then hosted /...
guide.notes 11 | hard questions
June 23, 2023
dear creative friends, this is guide.notes 11; where I nerd out loud on the process of nurturing a soft and true creative life in a capitalist world. * I...
guide.notes 10 | money is magic
June 16, 2023
dear kindred friends, this is guide.notes #10 -- on the process of nourishing an embodied creative life in the digital world. this email is about money -- as...
guide.notes | solitude & community
June 8, 2023
dear kindred spirits, this is guide.notes 09 -- on the process of nurturing a creative life. I’ve committed to writing on Thursdays — so you’ll hear from me...
guide.notes | break-ups as rebirth
June 2, 2023
dear creative friends, hello from guide.notes 08 ~ on the process of nurturing a creative life. this week, I'm sharing a post I wrote specifically for a...
guide.notes | antidotes for overwhelm
May 25, 2023
dear creative friends, this is guide.notes 07 ~ on the process of nurturing a creative life. this week's letter is a very meta post about feeling overwhelmed...
guide.notes 06 | swimming in the ocean alone
March 23, 2023
hello creative friends, this is guide.notes #6, on the process of nurturing a creative life. recently: I’ve been in a life blur of stomach flu, the anxiety...
earthquake country
March 3, 2023
dear stranger-friends, hello from my first digest of 2023. these days, it's been zombie weather in istanbul -- neither dark nor light, but heavy and grey,...
guide.notes 05 | build your dream house
January 12, 2023
dear creative friends, hello from my favorite month for building creative things: January of Capricorn season. every year around this time, I get a surge of...
a year of transitions
December 30, 2022
dear stranger-friends, happy almost new year! in this mysterious window between christmas and new years, I’ve been watching harry potter, playing stardew...
guide.notes 04 | hello & best of
December 7, 2022
hello kindred spirits, thank you for signing up for guide.notes, a newsletter about the "how" of growing a creative ecosystem in the digital world. my artist...
journey of three seas
December 2, 2022
dear stranger-friends, hello from a rainy week in istanbul. this letter is my artistic digest & weather report from the creative life. my last letter was...
loving an animal
October 13, 2022
dear stranger friends, I write to you eating my last watermelon of the year, thrilled that Istanbul finally feels like fall -- which means that my brain is...
this astronaut life
August 18, 2022
dear stranger-friend, at the beginning of summer, I returned to istanbul after two weeks in new york, and wrote you a long letter about it -- the stark...
growing a home like a garden
June 2, 2022
dear stranger-friend, I’m sorry it’s been an entire season since my last letter from that snowy day in istanbul. spring has felt sudden, loud, and heavy. I...
hello from istanbul
March 10, 2022
dear stranger-friends, it's been 2 months (or 2+ years) since I've written most of you. at some point in the last 5 years, you signed up for my letters. I'll...
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