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To my 18-year-old self
You will misread silence as agreement for years. One day you'll learn that listening is not the same as disappearing.
— T.
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Design & Positionality · Future Practice · 2025
Letters to self.
Six small envelopes, addressed across time.
A reflective project examining how my thinking and practice evolved during the semester, tracing the questions and tensions shaping my emerging design practice.
№02 / 06
To the designer I was three years ago
Stop apologising for slowness. The work you make in a hurry will not be the work you remember.
— T.
№03 / 06
To myself, on a hard day
The room is not asking you to be smaller. It is only the old story. Drink the water. Begin again.
— T.
№04 / 06
To my future self at forty
If the practice still asks 'who is this for?', you have not lost it.
— T.
№05 / 06
To the women in my work
Thank you for trusting me with the parts that were never meant for archives. I tried to hold them gently.
— T.
№06 / 06
To whoever reads this last
Take what's useful. Leave the rest. The letter was always for me anyway.
— T.
How it was written
Wrote six letters across three temporal registers: past, present, future self.
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Visualised each letter as a small illustrated artefact.
"An illustrated set of six letters — a quiet record of becoming, and a tool I now use to check in with my practice."