THE CURRENCY OF FAIRNESS
An essay and an original song about money, power, and the invisible economies of human survival.
From Wall Street to a Berlin shelter, every place has its own currency. Some transactions happen in money. Others happen in cigarettes, favours, access, or the...
THE NECESSITY OF FEELING SUPERIOR
An essay and an original song about status, taste, and the human need to feel above somebody else.
Why is being better than someone else so often more satisfying than being happy with ourselves?
This project began as an essay for TABLE FOR NOBODY,...
AU! AU! AU!
On kindness, dignity, and the price of being human.
A cup of tea. A tall man eating schnitzel. A room full of people trying to get through the day.
Set inside the ordinary absurdity of a shelter cafeteria, this essay examines the fragile transactions between strangers,...
THE ART OF PROVOKING
On wanting to be left alone, and needing witnesses.
You want to be left alone, but you also want witnesses.
A study of provocation, vanity, and the strange little wars people start when silence stops paying attention. Two men spend a morning talking to walls,...
