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This journal is an ongoing inquiry into the act of making and the poetics of ownership. It examines the liminal space between the object and the self, the quiet, often overlooked terrain where meaning is formed, transferred, and ultimately preserved. Design is rarely a simple arrangement of materials toward a functional end. More accurately, It is the externalisation of an interior truth, a practice of coherence between what we make and who we are. To design well is to refuse
kkerelé
Apr 4, 2025
A Necessary Audit
There comes a moment in every practice when the central question is no longer how to grow, but on what terms continuation remains legitimate. To continue is to affirm that the existing conditions — ethical, structural, relational, are sufficient to carry the work forward. And when that affirmation is unexamined, continuation can be a latent form of erosion. We felt that erosion this year. Not because the work had weakened; on the contrary, things were functioning well. Object
kkerelé
Dec 25, 2025
Playlist 01 - First Hour
Our playlist series will unfold as both mood-setting and music curation, a way of translating moods, atmospheres, and interior states...
kkerelé
Aug 23, 2025
Waste is Dissonance
Waste is not merely a material excess; it is the symptom of an ethical lapse. Before it becomes visible as surplus, it first resounds as a form of dissonance, an inharmonic relation between form, intention, and use. When the maker composes without inner tuning and the participant acquires without inner listening, objects detach from necessity and accumulate as residue. Conversely, when creation and selection proceed from interior clarity, the field of design shifts from appet
kkerelé
Aug 21, 2025
Origin: The wrap
For anyone attuned to our work, there is a design element that asserts itself with almost a ritualistic persistence — the wrapped sole: a...
kkerelé
Jul 5, 2025
Origin: The series
Origin is the name we give to the point or the place where something begins, arises, or is derived. The primal source from which all...
kkerelé
Jun 29, 2025
Memory has a texture
We believe every material holds a capacity for memory and there are objects in the world that remembers more than we do. Leather, for...
kkerelé
Apr 16, 2025
Honest design is not a mask
Design is not merely the shaping of form — it is the shaping of meaning. within that act is a sacred duty, shared between the one who...
kkerelé
Apr 1, 2025
Our Woman: Our Women:
Our woman is the question and the answer, the labyrinth and the thread. She is the light and the darkness that cradles it. In her wake,...
kkerelé
Mar 8, 2025
Self portrait with keyla
Based in New York, Keyla is an all round creative who works mainly in film photography. They’re interested in capturing the essence of...
kkerelé
May 25, 2022
Excerpts from the dictionary of obscure sorrows
Words for emotions we once felt by john Koenig. Chrysalism n . the amniotic tranquillity of being indoors during a thunderstorm,...
kkerelé
May 28, 2020
visual essay: comfort zone by Allan Kaprow
In June 1975, Allan Kaprow staged the comfort zone activity at galeria vandrés in Madrid. The activity consisted of eight rules or...
kkerelé
May 28, 2020
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