Hello World

Before this site, there was another one. I taught myself to code for it, every line written by hand, no template doing the thinking for me.

The concept came from an old idea I kept circling back to on my travels: to read widely and to travel far. I wanted to know what each form of learning gives you that the other can't, classroom study versus just being somewhere and paying attention. The color palette was drawn from five days driving alone along the southern coast of France, where every town seemed to carry its own palette. Color there felt like identity, the way a place introduces itself before you know its name. I built the rest of the site around that same logic, treating design as another form of noticing.

The site you're on right now was built differently. I directed it through Claude Code rather than writing every line myself, which is its own skill: knowing what to build and how to get an AI to build it well. The one below, I built by hand, start to finish. Different tools, same instinct underneath. Design has never felt separate from the rest of my work. It's just another way of paying attention and making that attention visible.