this is a photograph from cato, ny. it’s some wood chips on the ground in a park near the house my friend jess used to live in. i took this photo at a time in my life when i was just starting to get into design, and i’d photograph all kinds of textures and patterns around me to create some sort of catalog that i would be able to access later for reasons i had only a loose grasp on. right now this picture serves as my computer desktop background. some of the icons get lost in it, but it connects me to something nice and/or natural. maybe it’s the fact that it’s wood. maybe it’s the fact that it looks a little wet. maybe it’s the downward perspective that elevates me when i look at it. it definitely doesn’t remind me of cato, though. strange.