Human slow time
A second year of Lulu's Walks
It’s been two years of Lulu’s Walks!
I made 6 visual essays this year (same as the year before). I’m sort of surprised by that — I thought I’d made more. I’d assumed I was getting… faster?
But it seems I’m moving as slow as I always have.
I love to move slow with art. I learned how to enjoy slow time when I hand-sewed an 18th-century gown in 2021-2022. It took me 9 months of near-daily work. And I had all of this time and space to explore the world of the gown I was sewing. It felt like I was building a kingdom with my vision, and the more time I’d spend imagining it, the farther it reached.
Moving slow gives me time to deepen — my ideas, my knowledge of the subject, the image in my mind’s eye. Moving slow gives me more time to tune to a frequency, and then to listen.
Moving slow with art feels like a quiet and steady way to stay human — I am not trying to optimize for efficiency. The efficient version of my art would be something else entirely.
Right now I’m working on a visual essay about the sculpting a puppet of myself, who accidentally and unfortunately ended up looking like Chuck Schumer. But before getting there (slowly), here’s a look back at some of my favorite drawings from this past year:





Thank you so much for your support this year. This was the first year I started reaching an audience who doesn’t know me personally, and it was very exciting! And an extra thank you to my paid subscribers — it is so encouraging to see my work valued.
Lots of love,
Lulu





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