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2026.07.28
The night the smoke went straight up
On a still night the column holds its shape the whole way to the ceiling. Nothing in the room moves, so nothing moves it. Fifteen minutes of watching that is the entire point of the thing we make.
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2026.06.15
Agarwood only exists after the tree is wounded
Aquilaria produces nothing worth burning until infection sets in. The resin is a scar. Everything we prize about the smell is a tree's answer to damage, which is a strange thing to sell as calm.
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2026.05.02
Ilgak — the quarter hour Korea already had a word for
Before clocks, one 刻 was a quarter of an hour, and a stick of incense was how you measured it. Our fifteen minutes is not a design decision. It is a translation of something that was already there.
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2026
The night the smoke went straight up 07.28 - Three hundred grams, thrown away 07.19
- Tabu-no-ki, the binder that decides everything 07.04
- Agarwood only exists after the tree is wounded 06.15
- On dipping, and why we will not do it 06.02
- A room that gets quieter as it fills with smoke 05.21
- Ilgak — the quarter hour Korea already had a word for 05.02
- Incense clocks and the measurement of a sitting 04.26
- Eight centimetres, fifteen minutes 04.09
- The first ash that held its shape 03.28
- Benzoin, and the problem with sweetness 03.15
- Hyangjeon — when burning time was currency 02.27
- What a stick sounds like 02.14
- Sourcing sandalwood without buying a lie 01.22
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2025
Cold cabin air, first attempt 12.18 - Makko from three suppliers, side by side 12.03
- Why we started with incense 11.20
- The shape of doing nothing 11.06
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