connecting dots

originality lives in the way fragments meet. no one can hold the same fragments you do. every mind gathers from its own weather, its own collisions of memory and chance.
dots connect even when we don’t intend it. two books blur until a third story appears. one scene bleeds into another and meaning keeps changing shape.

artists borrow, repeat, and return to what moves them. what makes the work yours is the background it filters through, the languages you half learned, the moments you almost lost yourself, the habits you carried without question, the tone you fall into when you speak, the choices you make without thinking. all of it becomes the grammar of your work.

originality already lives in the arrangement of your fragments. the work is to notice. connecting dots is how meaning takes shape. fragments gather, press against each other, and something larger begins to form. a pattern appears where before there was only scatter. someone else meets it with their own background, makes something of it, and the cycle continues.

i put together the shape of a thought from this same line of thinking. it’s a workbook for connecting dots, gathering fragments, and turning them into ideas you can bring into your own work.