about.

long story short

I made this for me first.

I was wondering: what sentences actually changed me?

So I went through years of texts, emails, notebooks...

Not quotes. Real conversations with my dad, friends, lovers, strangers... I put them in a book. On perforated pages, you can tear out, keep, and pass on.

The same way they were passed to me.

But — if you want the long version, it really begins with a candle in a bar during a solo trip to Berlin.

Cold Berlin
January 7th

Very first Sunday of 2024 — a solo trip

I was at the counter ready to leave but ordered one last drink.

While waiting,
on my table, under a candle I find a fortune cookie note.

A lit candle on a small, rustic holder with a curved handle, casting warm light in a dark environment. A small piece of paper with text in both German and English is placed below the holder.better to light a candle than to complain about darkness.

It reads: better to light a candle than complain about darkness.

5 months later pieces started to come together.

For some reason, you are here —

and so much had to happen for you to be here.

So I decided to recreate this experience for other people.

As in finding something you didn’t expect but that resonates

So I designed this book.

A book with detachable pages.

A book that finds you.

I’m glad I found you, it’s in your hands now.