Fig. 05 — One ink: Black

Hobbies

7 items · positions in the shared PCA frame
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.