001: Burning the artist

Or, I’ve been doing a lot of reading about art and philosophy and the self and, wow, I wouldn’t blame you if you threw up while you unsubscribed right now

I was somewhere over the western half of the USA when I initially wrote this. Ironically, as soon as I moved away from the “Dispatch from Somewhere” title because it felt too travel-centric, I started traveling more, and this first Substack post was written from the cool comfort of a metal tube full of recycled air 50,000 feet above the ground. This mon…