I’m the featured designer at Cafe Yak! Check out the interview!
I’m grateful to publisher Anna Harris for the original and insightful questions — some of them really made me dig into my brain. I nearly got lost in there!
The first question especially threw me for a loop: If you were to create a graphic to describe your personality and personal style, what would it be? I had to think long and hard about that. Would it be one of my logos? No, because those are more connected to the output and marketing of either my graphic design studio or my apparel design.
I decided it would have to be something that expresses my ideal, something to strive for. Here’s what I replied:
This is a tough question — one I never thought of before. But if pressed I’d probably have to say the enso, a Zen brushwork symbol that that looks like a circle. If you look it up you’ll find all sort of esoteric meanings. To me, however, it embodies what I can only call “sublime simplicity” that is very difficult to attain despite how it looks.
Enso by Kanjuro Shibata XX
So that’s what I replied, but I continue to think about it. It’s really hard to get that circle right — calligraphy and Zen practitioners have been known to draw it daily. To me it speaks to the use of negative space, the beauty of minimalism (something I often cannot carry out commercially but which represents my ideal) , an all-inclusiveness (some enso are not fully closed – for some reason I am more drawn to those), and needless to say the Japanese Zen aesthetic appeals to me greatly. I also find it interesting that its universality has no end point; interestingly, in Judaism, the Kabbalah speaks of the “No End” or infinite, in Hebrew “Ein Sof” — and funnily, ein sof even sounds a little like ensoo, doesn’t it?
Now that Anna has made me think about this, I am going to have to ponder it further. 
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I’ve added new tie cardigans to my Etsy shop. These are the perfect weight for summer, although I personally wear them year round.
