GRAIN is a space about creativity and intentional living, and the drivers that move them. How ideas contribute to us, how environments shape us, and how people build things that matter.
For people expanding their creative work, their ideas, their companies, themselves.
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Taipei in Suspension: Living Between Identities
How does a place function, thrive even, when its very existence remains unresolved?
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Cities and environments as mirrors for the inner world, how geography provides insight.
Articles
Ideas, essays & reflections
Conversations
Dialogues and interviews with people shaping culture, creativity and new ways of thinking.
Recent Articles
Creativity: Tyranny and Freedom
We live inside a quiet cultural assumption: that creativity requires freedom, open time, open possibility, minimal constraint. Cultural assumptions are powerful precisely because they are rarely examined.
About GRAIN
GRAIN explores the architecture beneath an intentional life. How creativity works, what shapes identity, and what places and design can reveal to us.
Drawing on decades in high-pressure creative environments these essays examine the gap between ambition and reality, discipline and freedom, vision and execution.
It's for people who sense that the quality of their inner and outer worlds matters.