Fig. 05 — One ink: Black
Hobbies
| Shape | ID | Title | Blurb | Year | PC1 | PC2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H-01 | Badminton | The fastest of the racquet sports: short rallies, a lot of footwork, and very little time to think. | — | −0.85 | 0.09 | |
| H-02 | Pickleball | The slower racquet sport, where placement and patience beat power. | — | −0.76 | 0.09 | |
| H-03 | Thrifting | Digging through secondhand racks for the piece nobody else noticed. | — | −0.73 | −0.14 | |
| H-04 | Fashion | Clothes as a design problem: proportion, color, texture, and how the pieces work together. | — | −0.47 | −0.03 | |
| H-05 | Art history | The stories behind paintings and the movements around them. | — | −0.76 | 0.17 | |
| H-06 | Classic literature | Older books that still argue with the present, Steinbeck and Camus among them. | — | −0.86 | 0.27 | |
| H-07 | Philosophy | From Plato to Camus to Kant: the questions underneath the essays on the writing plate. | — | −0.66 | −0.00 |
What I do away from the keyboard: racquet sports, secondhand clothes, paintings, old books and philosophy. They are embedded like everything else, so you can see where they fall relative to the work. Grey marks are the other five layers, kept in place so positions stay honest.