# 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);">15 May 2026</span> </span> **Dear reader**, by some chance, you've arrived here, and for that, I offer you a welcome. This digital garden is a passion project where I share whatever crosses my mind; it serves as a collection and compendium of anything that interests me. Its entries mostly orbit around art- and design-centered topics, such as 3D art, clay sculpting and photography, but also include unrelated personal entries and explorations, which are collected in the ==Musings== branch. In many ways, this place is an unbound extension of blog on my portfolio website [stephanlevin.com](https://www.stephanlevin.com/blog). > As I'm currently re-designing and re-structuring my portfolio website, it remains offline for the unforeseeable future. My digital garden currently represents my main site. --- This 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. Yet, I believe that the true answer to this question might reveal itself more fully through 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).