Recently I completed a limited edition for visual artist Haroon Mirza.

While working on the book, I found myself returning to its title more than anything else.

Everything Was, Is and Always Will Be.

The pages move between creation myths and cosmology, artificial intelligence and ancient scripture, sound, technology, consciousness, and the origins of life.

At first, they feel like separate subjects.

Then slowly the boundaries begin to dissolve.

One idea leads to another.

A scientific theory sits beside a myth.

A machine appears next to a ritual.

The distance between them becomes smaller than expected.

One of the privileges of my work is spending time inside someone else’s way of seeing the world.

Not just their finished ideas, but the connections between them.

For a while, you get to follow the connections they notice.

And occasionally leave with a few of your own.