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a personal syllabus (2022) - unfurled spirals by @katiewav

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A friend shared the following thought with me after reading my last piece, drawing inspiration from Richard Powers: “Time is not linear, but a series of concentric circles, like the rings of a tree. Ourselves today, our newest selves, are the outermost rings of a tree. We are comprised also of every person we were in the years leading up to today, even if those layers have compressed into the past.”

a personal syllabus (2022) katie Jul 18, 2022 8 Share Lucas Samaras, Versace drawing #1-6 , 1996 A friend shared the following thought with me after reading my last piece, drawing inspiration from Richard Powers: “Time is not linear, but a series of concentric circles, like the rings of a tree. Ourselves today, our newest selves, are the outermost rings of a tree. We are comprised also of every person we were in the years leading up to today, even if those layers have compressed into the past.” I believe the same is true for what we consume. We are each composed of a unique constellation of re

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