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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…

“If you stare long enough at the sea, you’ll see dolphins.”
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Overthinking is the artist’s greatest burden—and their most powerful tool. It twists reality, ruins the moment, and turns a simple situation into a storm of worry.
It makes everything feel worse than it is.
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And yet… it is absolutely A–M–A–Z–I–N–G!!!
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The Beauty of the Distortion
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Overthinking allows you to see what others miss. It is a form of constructive suffering: a refusal to let a subject go until it mutates into something else entirely. What begins as observation slowly transforms into revelation.
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Through this discomfort, old forms begin to change into something new. Hidden meanings appear, and ordinary things transform into completely different stories.

 

I don’t simply look at the world—I stare at it relentlessly, until it gives up all its secrets.

 


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