Found

Reminder that anyone is free to send me images and artist suggestions for the channel! Camt guarantee I'll use them, but I'll at least check them out!

French engraver Gustav Doré's illustrations for the Bible, submitted by a friend and follower of the channel.

Happy five years everyone.

My first year as a graduate student of writing has begun, and, for the first time in my life, I exist in a place and amongst people completely unfamiliar to those I've known previously. I've talked a lot in my previous annual addresses about what it means to find something and reconstruct a meaning out of it, but what I've said before is far too fixated on rebuilding. To truly find something new and unfamiliar is to meet something without a definite shape in its meaning, and to have to build it from the ground up, without foundations or blueprints. I am in such a phase now. Everything in my life is new and wonderful and I'm truthfully the happiest I've ever been but that in a large part, is because a new life is one without boundaries. I have been blessed to set aside my past perceptions and build a new self, to find strength and opportunity with each fresh step I take. My eyes may be old, but the sights have changed. I've also been thinking a lot about Found, and what to say for such a momentous year in my life. I hope I pieced my thoughts together well enough. In thinking about this channel though, I've decided to change an old tradition of mine. As you may have noticed, this address is not on Christmas, as it has been previously. Now, it's on the 27th, the anniversary of Found's, well, founding. It's important to be able to reinterpret and change, if it's done with love, and if you take care of what you find.

Paintings by Chinese landscape artist Ni Zan.

Portaits by Hungarian artist Istvan Nagy.