The world moves fast, but I'm at the speed of one step forward, two steps back. Progress, or "progress", then a cul de sac. I kept trying. This can't be it. So my latest, smallest project started on March 3, 2025: 100 pocket poems, 100 days, each one based on a two-colour gradient. Something familiar, something simple.

Soon, I wanted to give up, thinking: this isn't big or important enough. No one is looking. Some of this is ugly and stupid and I am just repeating myself. (Flowers, stars, sky, mint.)

But the longer I stayed with it, I realized: this was the thing. Is. Life is sometimes ugly and stupid and we are just repeating ourselves.

"ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER" is a compression of the journey, using line and colour to visualize and encode all 100 poems. 100 gradients representing the ongoing persistence of motion. Each day, almost nothing. Frustratingly nothing. But together, something. Everything.

Change is happening all around you, all the time. Most of it is imperceptible. But when you're on the other side, you'll see—or feel—that you are not the same. Life unfolded, you changed, we all get there line by line.

— Ana, August 2025