Category - Read

Featured image for the READ article Care, in All Its Messiness. Two small rescued baby pigeons sit closely together on a folded dark towel while a hand gently cradles them from above. Part of a laptop sits to the right with the Gregg the Artivist logo visible on the screen. The lighting is warm and low, creating an intimate, calm, editorial feel that reflects the article’s themes of tenderness, interruption, and care.

Care in All Its Messiness

After several heavy, world focused pieces, this week’s READ turns to something quieter and much smaller. But not smaller in meaning. When two baby...

Live Like Pirates Because Clarity Is Not Coming First: Stormy pirate ship scene with Gregg in costume holding a rope on deck while a large black flag behind him displays the Gregg the Artivist red logo circle, with lightning and rough waves in the background, matching the article live like pirates and the message of clarity after motion.

Live Like Pirates

This past week brought murder on the high seas, another round of the productivity debate, and a new belief I cannot unsee: if we want to survive what...

Seven Peace College students in navy and gold uniforms stand on a rocky ridge with their backs to the viewer, facing a glowing planet horizon. Above them, a monumental translucent crest shape fills the sky with a gold dove insignia inside a circle and orbit like arcs. Aurora light and storm clouds glow in teal and ember tones. This is a cinematic sci fi illustration, not a real photograph.

Europe’s Peace College

A quote from Star Trek sent me down a rabbit hole about Europe. We have War Colleges everywhere, but where is our Peace College? Defence is...

Six phase map: Nighttime editorial collage. Through a glass wall, shadowy monster like executives in suits meet around a table with a glowing globe. Outside, a man in glasses holds a potted plant and watering can, watching with tired amusement. Wet street reflections, warm window lights, and a bicycle silhouette suggest a Dutch city.

Six Phase Map

Monsters run the world. Now what? A funny, honest six phase map from burnout to community, and why my projects keep evolving into connection.