04 Apr 2025. Doodle
Agenda-less frogs.
I’ve been a bit stuck, mentally and ‘spiritually’: this week I couldn’t finish my lab tasks or fulfil other work responsibilities, nor could I finish writing the essay I’d been planning about frogs. But with frogs on the brain, as well as an exhortation by the American writer Henry Miller (‘When you can’t create you can work’), I tried, and am still trying, to press on.
In the meantime, here are three riffs on a famous and delightful frog print by the nineteenth-century Japanese artist Matsumoto Hoji. You can read more about both art and artist here.
(Also, thanks to all my friends who sent encouragement this week! I have taken all of it to heart! I am really trying to, as one infuriatingly brilliant friend put it, ‘imagine a future version of yourself that freely surpasses your limits — [and] act like she would’.)
1. Obsession
2. Periodic table
3. Hero’s journey
