My wanderlust has led me to value keeping a visual journal of my travels. Sketchbooks allow me to play, explore, and respond to the world as it unfolds in real time. In my day-to-day life I can easily slip into autopilot, but traveling with a sketchbook slows me down — it invites me to wander, and in wandering, to notice the ways beauty can unfold right before your eyes. The people and places inspire me: the colors, textures, and unexpected situations; the random connections that become meaningful once expressed in a drawing, captured as an indelible memory.

My travel sketchbooks are usually a collection of starts and stops, and I like to share them in their entirety because I believe every page, even the hesitant ones, leads toward unlocking the essence of what I'm looking at. It's important to me to show the process of finding my way to the page. Drawing is always hard work. It takes time to slow down, to notice what's worth drawing, to choose the right approach — and to convince yourself it's worth the effort. That resistance, I've learned, is part of the process.