HeyJaredAPPIA
Personal essays that weave together the subjects I'm passionate about through personal anecdotes, cultural observations, and engaging conversations with fellow creatives.
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86 — The renaissance of the unruly hair has began (opens the original)
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I used to have very long, straight hair, not because I was born with that gene, but because I put in the work. Instead, I was born with the sometimes wavy, sometimes curly hair gene, the one that requires maintenance, de-frizzing, and a lot of humidity control. The one that kept me away from any body of water, and even art exhibitions that had ‘moisture’ in their descriptions. I got accustomed to referring to it (it being my hair) as an entity on its own. Unruly, crazy, and witchy were all adjec
85 — Nothing to See Here (opens the original)
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A muted-grey concrete building. Its surface is not smooth, but pebble-like. On the left-hand side, there’s a series of window openings that create some sort of grid pattern. The window frames look dark brown, almost reddish. Although it reminds me of the Barbican Centre in London, this building doesn’t appear to be a residential one. Standing on its side, on a thin concrete plinth, are two low metal pipes, curved, as if bent on themselves. The pipes are smooth. The image looks very clean if it w
84 — Repetition is Not a Limitation (opens the original)
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The promise of consumerism reminds us that if we could buy our way to better clothes, then we’d feel better about ourselves, happier in our skin, and somehow we’d always have the right thing to wear no matter the circumstances that we’re in, yet, somehow, we’re all too familiar with the feeling of not having anything to wear when, in reality, our closets are filled with beautiful clothes.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T5Wp!,f_auto,q_aut
83 — Are We Still Trying to Be Seen? (opens the original)
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82 — A moment on the lips (opens the original)
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