JOURNAL
Thoughts on art,
food, and how things work.
Essays, process notes, and occasional opinions. Updated when something's worth saying.
My Love for Kibuye, RW
The works coming out of this trip are part of the Thank You Rwanda series — an ongoing collection of landscape paintings documenting my time living in Rwanda. Kibuye and Lake Kivu will be the next subjects. Acrylic on canvas. The reference material is the weekend itself.
You're Just Not Listening
The hotels that understand their restaurant is the experience — not a supplement to it — are the ones worth staying in. The rest are still serving Indomie.
Your Hotel Isn't on the Map Anymore
AI doesn't find hotels the way Google does. It doesn't crawl. It doesn't rank. It retrieves —, and if your property hasn't been built into what it retrieves, you simply don't exist.
Airbnb vs. African Hotels
Research across 300,000 listings found that hotels are technically cheaper in over 75% of direct single-listing comparisons.
Thank You, Rwanda
I come from a country that is many things — loud, brilliant, overwhelming — but not always gentle with its own beauty. Rwanda made me jealous.
Finding Inspiration in The Kitchen— Again
The strange thing about losing inspiration in the kitchen is that nobody notices.