If I'm not able to access wonder, my creativity feels stunted. There are many small ways I've found to feel wonder in my day to day life, and it starts with getting off my computer — but the most powerful way to do that has been leaving my house, or better yet, leaving town. Every time I leave town and extract myself from the mental clutter of daily life, I'm reacquainted with a part of myself that comes alive through being more present and noticing simple things. As I arrive

I’m on the tram swooping through Amsterdam with the new Modest Mouse album playing in my sound cancelling ear buds, and suddenly I feel that overlap between my present and teenage selves, and I feel just as fascinated by life and creativity as I did back then. What brings you back to yourself? My teenage self: in the art program in high school (Midgårdsskolan in Umeå), dreaming of being a comic artist because web comics were THE coolest, I thought. Narrative. Linework. Color.

There are few things stronger than the human urge to understand other people by finding their context. A title. A role. A category. There is, of course, a logical explanation for this. Not that long ago, it was useful to know whether the person in front of you belonged to your group, your village, your side of the road. Whether they were safe or not. The instinct to feel, sort and categorise people makes sense as a survival mechanism. But, it becomes less useful when brought

Hello, I’m Anna Thompson and I’m a graphic designer/painter/letterpress printer (shall we say creator?) based on the east coast of the US. My creative identity has always been with me, but it took on a new balance when I started working for myself back in 2017. After I got my BFA in graphic design/printmaking, I lived in the Hudson Valley at Women’s Studio Workshop. I lived in a shared cabin, never saw a key, and walked down a gravel road to my job every day. Life moved slowl