My Stop Motion Life
Written in a season not so different from now
Let’s go back to 2023:
It’s been a travel-heavy year—20 out of the last 23 weeks spent working out of town. I just wrapped a project painting sets for an escape room experience. Before that, I was painting for live music events across the globe. In less than eight hours, I’ll be home, hopefully finishing this post at my kitchen table…
The idea of standing still—even briefly—feels like a luxury.
As someone who genuinely loves to travel, I also crave those quiet moments when I get to land, to pause, to wear something from my actual closet instead of whatever’s been crumpled in my backpack.
That tension—between movement and stillness—is what brings me back to a question I asked myself a few years ago… one I’m still sitting with now in 2025:
Is there such a thing as work/life balance for a creative person?
Because all I do is create. I don’t know how not to. I live inside a continuous current of creative energy.
I wake up thinking about how to design the day. I drink coffee out of a mug I designed. I sit down to write and immediately start thinking about a painting. I keep notebooks—both physical and digital—nearby at all times because the ideas don’t wait.