honestly, watching craft tutorials in a language you barely/don't understand feels like a rite of passage. i am but a humble student of the world, and a woman i will never know has shared her heart with me in the form of an aari embroidery tutorial by way of gestures, slow and careful demonstration, and a gentle tone of encouragement, and i am forever grateful to this stranger to whom i cannot speak for allowing me to learn from her in my bedroom on the other side of the world

























