Against the Crowd: Japan — The Freedom to Be Strange
Conformity is often described as an external pressure: a set of customs, obligations or rules. Yet it also takes shape inside the imagination, in the […]
Against the Crowd: Europe — Art, Music and Culture as Resistance
What happens to art when public life becomes an argument about who belongs, who is right, and who is permitted to disagree? This edition of […]
Artists Need the Freedom to Follow Their Own Path
I enjoyed hearing the clarity Rosie Kay brings to the questions raised in her conversation with Tanya de Grunwald on This Isn’t Working. The episode, […]
Distraction Therapy – Living with Delusions – Japan
A train window holds two worlds for a moment. Outside, trees and railway lines pass in an uneven rhythm. Inside, the glass catches a reflection: […]
Distraction Therapy – Living with Delusions
There’s a moment when a familiar song stops sounding familiar. A chorus that once passed as entertainment acquires an uncomfortable edge. The rhythm still moves […]
Distraction Therapy – The Turning Year – Autumn Japan
A leaf catches against a bicycle wheel. Afternoon sunlight reaches between buildings, illuminating a wall that will soon be in shadow. Somewhere beyond the street, […]
Distraction Therapy – The Turning Year
There is an afternoon in autumn when the light seems to belong to two seasons at once. The sun still carries something of summer, warming […]
Distraction Therapy – Rubber Soul, Open Roads Japan – The Life That Does Not Fit
A journey can begin long before we have decided where we are going. There is a particular pleasure in stepping out into a city without a […]
Distraction Therapy – Rubber Soul, Open Roads – The Possibility of Another Beginning
There are times when the world seems to have settled into a familiar pattern. The same journeys, the same conversations, the same expectations. We follow […]
Distraction Therapy – The Turning Light – Autumn Japan
The change arrives in small intervals. Rain settles on a railing. A leaf rests against the edge of a step. Between passing trains, the sound […]