# Stephan's Digital Garden <span style="font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: var(--tx2);">Planted:</span> <span style="color: var(--tx1);">23 July 2025</span><br> <span style="color: var(--tx2);">Last tended:</span> <span style="color: var(--tx1);">18 June 2026</span> </span> **Dear reader**, by some chance, you've arrived here, and for that, I offer you a welcome. ![[about-welcome.gif|1920]] This digital garden is a passion project where I share whatever crosses my mind; though it mainly serves as a collection and compendium of anything that interests me. Its entries mostly orbit around ==**art- and design-centered topics**==, but also include unrelated personal entries and explorations. In many ways, this place is an unbound extension of [my portfolio website](https://www.stephanlevin.com/) (currently under construction). > This digital garden is built on **Obsidian Publish**. If you're curious about the setup or are thinking of building your own, I've documented the entire process: [[Behind the Garden]]. --- ## What is a Digital Garden? A digital garden is a collection of thoughts and ideas, often focused, as in my case, on personal interests or studies. It's basically a blend between a digital notebook and a public blog, with content that cultivates and grows over time, like a seed planted in a garden. Unlike a blog, which typically follows a linear structure, a digital garden uses non-linear connections, linking related notes through internal links to form an interconnected web of thoughts. For a better overview, I'm sorting all entries into dedicated branches, which are simply menus collecting all notes on a relevant topic. You can find more on my digital garden's structure and how to navigate it on the [[Compass]] page. > For a deeper dive into the topic, I highly recommend Maggie Appleton's essay, ["A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden."](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) ## Who am I? I am 26-year-old artist and designer, focusing on character sculpting, figurative design and collectible art, still in the midst of unraveling that very question myself. After carefully analysing the overall trajectory of my existence up to this point in time, I have concluded that the meaning of my life so far may be summarised as follows: <div style="width:100%;height:0;padding-bottom:54%;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/NxEsKrLJXPuwg" width="100%" height="100%" style="position:absolute" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe></div><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/NxEsKrLJXPuwg"></a></p> Yet, I believe that the true answer to this question might reveal itself more fully through some the content you'll encounter here, particularly as this digital garden grows and evolves. ## Contact Feel free to reach out by leaving a message on my [[Write Something]] page, which serves as a guestbook, or [the contact form on my website](https://www.stephanlevin.com/contact).