Studio Retreat: Tahoe, CA
2026
7,000 feet of speculation.
As we ascended into the mountains, our brains became lighter as our oxygen became fewer. Passing by Donner Summit reminded us of the Grit Theory, asking ourselves; how far can perseverance take us?
The days ahead were eventful. We immersed ourselves in all things; thematic interests, preferred design tooling, Coenobium Bianco, and dreams, moving between the past, the present, and most importantly, the future.
72 hours doesn’t produce a plan. It produces the shorter list of things worth planning for.
We made ours together, out loud, and by hand.
In the wise words of Bass Pro Shop “We all live downstream”.
As Plato said, human affairs are not worthy of grim, humorless obsession; true seriousness belongs to the divine, and humans honor the gods by approaching righteous living with a sacred, playful grace. Especially in the snow.
