West Coast Pixel Project Revival

In 2022, I embarked on a journey that would inspire me and possibly change me in a lot of ways. One of the main residues of this journey (which really was a pilgrimage as it turned out), was the immense nostalgia that poured on me. In light of this nostalgia, I started recounting my time on the West Coast and decided to illustrate this project with pixel art (done by AI, as I am not a real talent for it, I guess). You could follow the evolution of the book on my Substack, but lately I have decided to rake these pieces together here. I hope you will find this trip as magically inspiring as I did. In the first installment of these diary entries there is the following one, which makes an attempt to explain why this trip hit me so strongly.