my main project this year has been around learning how to talk to people and capture their stories. i've been interviewing older adults in my city, and asking them about the objects they love sometimes I feel insecure that the thing I am trying to make is not very good & then I remember this is the least experienced I will ever be in my career and there are decades ahead of me to fill with new attempts, new experiments. it is very beautiful to spend so much time practicing being a better listener/question-asker/curator of words the most important thing right now is to keep trying again and again

but instead of marketing campaigns & reels it’s handing someone a piece of paper after closely observing their wedding/poetry reading/eid celebration/ dinner party

interviewed a woman who owns a shop in chinatown & this line she said lives rent free in my head