Personal posts

Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.

  • Measuring Intensity

    As far as I can tell, at least from the pop culture perspective, the quantified self movement has lost steam. Or, more to the point, it’s become more embedded into our machine lives and less a conscious element of our own idiosyncratic expression. They quantify us and make billions by doing calculations. I think that…

  • 2019 Illustrations by DXO

    Over the last few months I had used Adobe Sketch on iPad to trace images I’ve taken. This helps me think creatively and learn how to express myself visually. Here’s an album where I’m keeping all of this work and here’s my current fave:

  • Protected: Selected Works of Joffre Stewart

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Lori Lightfoot for Mayor

    I’m voting for Lori Lightfoot to be the mayor of the city of Chicago. Lori has the integrity, the experience, and the life that it takes to be the mayor of this city and to bring us beyond the brittle smallness of where we live. I worked with Lori as a member of the Chicago…

  • Homily de Saint Sabina

    I believe.