Welcome to Chaos Theory,

a newsletter we follow all the threads, think and feel deeply about complex things, and get inspired by the unexpected. A newsletter for lateral thinkers and creative souls. For multi-hyphenates and storytellers. It’s for rebels-at-heart and those who feel everything so, so deeply. Weekly letters into your inbox, with selected essays published here.

On unmasking

On unmasking

During the first year of the pandemic, I remember telling a friend how much I was enjoying staying home and not having to go anywhere or do anything. It felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. My friend didn’t understand: “But you can always just choose to stay home rather than…

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On overcoming creative blocks

On overcoming creative blocks

I wrote my last two artist statements in the swimming pool.  Stroke after stroke, words that refused to come to me before seemed to just appear in my head and form into sentences and then paragraphs and all I had to do is hold onto them long enough to write them down once I…

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On wintering

On wintering

I’m not making any New Year’s resolutions. In fact, I don’t remember the last time I made one.  Frankly, the middle of a cold dark winter is a pretty crap time to do that. I grew up in St Petersburg, Russia, where the January day is only about four hours long – if the sun is not…

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