My writing explores the same questions my art does — what happens to human attention and perception in an accelerated world, and what it means to look slowly and carefully at what is actually here. I write about technology and ethics, about nature, about the practice of paying attention. In everything I do, I'm looking for that moment of stillness that opens into something larger — a different quality of attention, a different relationship to time.
Substack
On Substack, I write at longer length about technology and attention, art and ethics, and what it means to pay careful attention in an accelerating world.
Recent and featured writing:
The Lost Song — A short story begun in the silence of a pandemic and finished in a Savannah park, with EarPods in and a barred owl hooting through them. About what we risk losing when we stop listening.
The Drama of Acceleration: The Stage Is Set, Casting Has Begun — On what our fascination with AI and speed reveals about us — and what it means to choose a more intentional role in the story being written around us.
Moments of Stillness in the Blue Zone — On the Blue Zone photography series, and the idea that a refuge of slowness and attention can be found not in geography, but in a single breath.
CrazyBird
The CrazyBird podcast began with an owl and a pandemic. During the long solitude of COVID, I took evening walks through Savannah's squares — a way of staying connected to the world outside when the world inside had gone very quiet. On those walks, I kept crossing paths with a barred owl the neighborhood had named "The Kid" — unhurried, watchful, completely indifferent to the city moving around him.
Out of that solitude came a craving for connection. I started reaching out to artists, thinkers, and educators around the world who were also stuck in their homes, and those conversations became CrazyBird — a podcast born from the particular combination of stillness and longing that defined that time.
The podcast explored the same territory my art and writing do — technology and attention, what it means to be human in an accelerating world, and the quieter questions that tend to surface when you slow down enough to notice them.
The archive is available on Spotify and Pocket Casts. New episodes are not currently in production.
Medium
Some of my earlier writing lives on Medium, including pieces from 2020 about the owl who started it all. Worth a visit if you want to follow the thread from the beginning.