beautiful things

This post is adapted from a zine I made for a Studio Ghibli themed zine fest that I was lucky enough to table at. Some of other work I made inspired by that zine fest can be seen here.

"Yet, even among all the hatred and slaughter, there are things worthy of life. It is possible for wonderful encounters to occur and for beautiful things to exist."

— Hayao Miyazaki on Princess Mononoke, quoted from the Hayao Miyazaki Catalogue

miyazaki's ugliest creatures are his most important

the Ohmu are ugly, and that's the point.

catching up

life updates, what's coming next, & my last vending event this year

sunburst anemone (a natural list, no. 18)

they're everywhere, yet they never get old (metaphorically)

on shared skies

an essay by Darien Fiorino