Hello Fellow Travelers… The Architectural Worlds Continue
Well… somehow we’re still moving forward 😊
We officially made it into the Top 15 of Johnny Depp’s People’s Artist Program, and now the next threshold appears ahead of us: the Top 10.
This whole experience continues to feel surreal, humbling, strange, beautiful, and unexpectedly moving.
What began as a small experiment in sharing my work more openly with the world has transformed into something much larger: a reminder of how powerful encouragement, community, and collective imagination can be.
Many of you have been traveling alongside me for the last year through Twain’s Gazette, through essays about architecture, social history, Gold Rush saloons, Julia Morgan, speculative futures, strange political landscapes, and the idea of “narrative architecture” itself. Others have only recently stumbled into these architectural worlds. Either way, I’m grateful you’re here.
And through all of this, something important has happened beyond the competition itself:
Together we’ve helped raise support and awareness for ✨ The Art of Elysium ✨, whose mission deeply resonates with me:
“The Art of Elysium is an artist organization built on the idea that through service, art becomes a catalyst for social change.”
That belief sits at the center of my own work as well.
I’ve always believed that architecture is never just about buildings. It is about systems, memory, belonging, exclusion, imagination, and the invisible structures shaping human life. The same is true of storytelling. The same is true of art itself.
And now… onward we go.
Like Julia Morgan quietly walking through doors she was never expected to enter, I find myself continuing one threshold at a time 😊
If you’d like to continue supporting the project, you can vote for free every 24 hours here:
Donations are completely optional, but if you choose to contribute, all funds go directly to The Art of Elysium in support of their programs and mission. Donations are tax deductible, and at the moment they are doubling votes, which gives the project an even bigger push forward.
If you’d like to learn more about The Art of Elysium:
Thank you again, fellow travelers.
The architectural worlds continue.
Luv,
KT