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↳ <up next: Direction Strong art residency/> Later this month, I’ll be taking part in a 5-day art residency focused on care, resilience, and the power of shared stories. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be developing a new artistic work that explores transitions from closed, protective states toward openness, calm, and connection — both personal and collective.
The residency brings together Bulgarian artists and women survivors from the Emprove community, creating space for attentive listening, exchange, and art that aims to gently awaken rather than overwhelm. I’m grateful to begin this process and curious to see where it leads.
detail from a visual I created while working on the project
💭 <Stranger Things appreciation moment/> I know the final season of Stranger Things has divided people. It was so interesting to follow people’s reactions on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. I’ve read the takes: the disappointment, the frustration, the memes.
And yet, I find myself deeply grateful for how it unfolded. And I am grateful that I experienced this!
For me, this wasn’t just a TV finale; it was a rare pop-culture moment and an actual phenomenon. These moments don’t come often. And unlike Game of Thrones, which left a huge cultural hangover and bits of devastation that haunt people for years, Stranger Things closes its arc with something gentler and harder to pull off: hope. It belongs more in the lineage of Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings — stories that trust emotional resolution, chosen family, and the idea that goodness, though fragile, can endure.
What I especially loved is how clearly the show speaks to a millennial memory bank. The 80s nostalgia isn’t just aesthetic — it’s emotional shorthand. The bikes, the basements, the synths, the D&D logic, the small-town mythologies. Even the fantasy echoes feel intentional: fellowship over individual heroics, ordinary kids facing overwhelming darkness, loyalty as a form of courage. These aren’t cheap Easter eggs; they’re values smuggled through references.
At its heart, the story remained beautifully simple and human: a group of kids who grow up together while facing unimaginable evil. Not because they’re “chosen,” but because they choose each other. The series insists on unity, loyalty, acceptance, and love as real forces. The chosen family trope works here because it’s earned over time, through conflict, awkwardness, and care.
I’m also thankful the show resisted the urge to confuse seriousness with brutality. Instead of killing characters for shock value or accelerating endlessly toward spectacle, it gave us time. Time to sit with people we’ve grown alongside. Time for quiet conversations, awkward conversations, grief, tenderness, and growth. The scenes some people call “too long” were, for me, the most valuable ones - the spaces where characters unfold and grow.
So yes, I’m grateful it was done the way it was done. Not perfect, not flashy for the sake of it, but sincere. In a media landscape obsessed with subversion and collapse, Stranger Things chose something almost radical: to end with heart intact.
And honestly? I’ll take that every time. It will be my next Christmas comfort watch thingy for years and years. I’m confident it will stand the test of time.
one of the thousands of heart-warming threads I’ve seen over the last few weeks
▲ Some of my highlights of the final season:
// I find it rare to watch shows and movies that don’t end 5 minutes after the final battle, after the climax. Here we got a fulfilling epilogue, which made me really grateful. This is something that is ultra rare in such big-scale pop culture stories and I am very often quite disappointed in popular movies and shows because they never do it.
// I am grateful for all the conversations and moments with many of the main characters. It didn’t feel slow for me; it felt heartwarming and interesting to spend these last moments with them, after 9 years of following their battles. I am glad we had that instead of constant action scenes.
// Special appreciation of the acting of Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna). I have been following his career for a long time and I am happy for him - he had a great opportunity to show his talent and determination with this show, and he nailed it.
