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There’s a Magic To Things We Can Hold In Our Hands
Volume 1 of my magazine, Citoyens du Monde, is live!
There’s a magic to things we can hold in our hands. The more digital our world becomes, the more I want to create these sorts of things. Products that feel pleasant to the touch. Art that evokes an aesthetic beauty and distinct style where the past and future dance and breathe.
Months ago, while visiting the U.S. from Japan, I had an insight: I want to create a magazine. I’d call it Citoyens du Monde (Citizens of the World), a canvas where all the things I love may converge: prose and poetry; travel and culture; colors and fonts and design, photography and art.
Eventually, I want to bring aboard other inspired souls to help me illuminate the more meaningful aspects of being a human being on planet Earth, as we’re all citizens of the world, trying our best to understand it.
Drawing from experiences toward the end of last year, volume 1 would derive from an adventure in the United States, spent largely in the desert with thoughts in outer space, and also from my time living in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan.
It would comprise one of my favorite stories that I’ve written, which is my first experience at Burning Man. To have that experience memorialized in print was enough of a…
