FANA

The total annihilation of self.

So much of my creative output—from my stories to the music I’ve produced and the photographs I’ve taken—has been influenced by my time living out of a fancy hotel room in Berlin, Germany, during the summer of 2001.¹ Before arriving there, lonely, depressed, and heartbroken, I had spent a harrowing six months living in New Mexico, followed by tech consult…