02/02/2025

hi! this is me, julika. eating sweet things because apparently that's what my body craves in times of distress. also, in times of joy. which is this exact moment of photographic capture: me on an odd november afternoon, joyfully distressed (or rather distressedly joyful?) in my - yet to become - new studio space. it was captured by carolin, my most inspiring friend and protector of my self-consciousness.

it is her, amongst some other kind people, that suggest i have a way with words but i often think that maybe it's the other way around. it is them that have their way with me. sometimes the words just come to me and i have learned to let them. i am still learning to keep them. which is probably why i started making those small shiny objects - often perceived as rings - as a first true attempt of holding onto thoughts, preserving them and giving them (to the test of) time. and to you.

since these objects are not too spacious, i thought i could use this format to bring to you some more words. some of the thoughts that lie behind and below the ones that made it onto the surface of my little objects. 

but let's take it one step at a time.

for today, as this is the very first of my letters to you, i thought i'd just leave you with a quick hello from me (this pastry-munching human that could do with a bit of pilates) and with it this open invitation to follow me and these words along. i would love for you to give my words and stories the opportunity of being changed and altered by your perceptions of them. 

stay close, stay warm.
until next time, j.