Easter eggs

to re-enchant the egg feels powerful at this moment. today more than ever, we need its patient, protected optimism.

for me, “egg” is most importantly a metaphor for nurturing structures we provide others and sometimes ourselves. it’s not always easy to create our own eggs, or self-nurturing containers. studying eggs helps us create better ones in the future. others might call it a support structure, as édouard tweeted, “more often than not, the most meaningful human activity boils down to providing support structures for one another.”

if there is anything specific i learned from curating my collection of eggs and sharing these thoughts and anecdotes on them, it’s that the word “honor” is important to me. as i mentioned, i have this theory that when artists use eggs in their work, often they are simply honoring them. in other words, they are shining a light on the egg somehow: so that we can see it anew, as if for the first time.

Whatever you’re working on right now, whatever it might be, I ask: try to leave a little space for a courtyard.

Design details that feel like magic.

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