The same instinct that draws me to political science — the search for hidden structure, for the mechanisms underneath what looks like noise — turns out to run through most of what I do outside of it.

Music has been the longest of these threads. I play violin, but have since been drawn to the lute and electric guitar. My listening moves freely between Purcell and Bach, symphonic metal, and city pop — different worlds on the surface, but all animated by the same architectural logic: voices that build, interlock, and resolve.

I also carry a camera. The photographs here are an attempt to stay attentive — to the quiet order in natural landscapes, and to the moments where individual lives become legible as something larger: fragments of how people inhabit the world, and what that reveals about the society they share.

And when none of this is enough, I swim — in pools, in lakes, in rivers. There is something clarifying about moving with water rather than against it.