Every city since 1988 — 166 of them, pulled from photo GPS and the trips before phones had any. Press play to watch the route.
San Francisco Bay Area
1988–2022
Cupertino childhood; later Fremont, Stanford, Millbrae
Hsinchu
2000–2006
the Taiwan years — with Taipei as recurring home ground ever since
Chicago
2006–2012
Northwestern (Evanston), then Madison
Seattle
2022–2026
home since 2022
United States 84Japan 30Taiwan 7Chile 4China 4Canada 3Spain 3India 3South Korea 2United Kingdom 2Argentina 2Hong Kong 1Switzerland 1The Netherlands 1France 1Singapore 1Germany 1Sweden 1Austria 1Macau 1Bahamas 1
Paintings & light
Paintings I keep going back to — mostly Turner, Monet, and Van Gogh.
The Fighting TemeraireJ.M.W. Turner, 1839 · National Gallery, LondonThe old warship towed into the sunset by a smoke-belching tug — an entire era ending in one sky.Lake KeiteleAkseli Gallen-Kallela, 1905 · National Gallery, LondonSilver zigzags of wind across a Finnish lake. The quietest painting in the building.London, the Houses of Parliament — Sunlight Opening in the FogClaude Monet, 1904 · Musée d'Orsay, ParisLate Monet dissolving architecture into weather — the London he chased from his Savoy window.Charing Cross BridgeClaude Monet, 1903 · from the London seriesOne of thirty-seven views of the same bridge, none in the same light twice.Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, SunlightClaude Monet, 1894 · National Gallery of Art, WashingtonStone as light. The architecture series that rewired how buildings can be seen.Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)Claude Monet, 1891 · Art Institute of ChicagoThe haystacks — same field, every hour, every season. Proof that attention is a form of love.A Wheatfield, with CypressesVincent van Gogh, 1889 · National Gallery, LondonPainted from the asylum at Saint-Rémy; the whole landscape moves like weather.CypressesVincent van Gogh, 1889 · The Met, New York"As beautiful of line and proportion as an Egyptian obelisk" — his words, green flame in oil.
Music
87 nights of live music over 16 years, grown into a pond that plays the real thing. Every artist is a lily — click one and their music plays while the water moves to it. The more nights spent with an artist, the deeper their setlist: click again for the next track.
electronicclassicalk/j-popjazzpop & rocksound on — every lily plays its artist (30″ previews, courtesy of Apple Music)
Work
Director of Product Management at ServiceNow, working on agentic development platforms. Outside work: deep-dish pizza, ceramics, and landscape photography.
