When a couple decided to celebrate their union in Atlixco, Puebla — one of them Mexican, the other Spanish — I wanted to find a way to give their guests something more than a centerpiece. I wanted to give them a piece of Mexico. The real one. The wild one. The Idea: A Bottle of Mezcal and a Story The concept was simple but layered: each of the ten guest tables would have a bottle of Sangre de Agave mezcal at its center, dressed with a hand-illustrated card featuring a differe

On uncertainty, transition, and the animals that hold our unspoken feelings There are paintings you plan. And then there are paintings that find you. This polar bear was the second kind. The Image That Wouldn’t Leave Me I didn’t set out to paint a polar bear. I set out to paint something I couldn’t quite name — a feeling that had been living in my chest for months. It was 2024, and I was in the middle of one of the most significant transitions of my life. Not a dramatic colla