Annika is Dreaming

On the Necessity of Beauty

For the beauty we gather, the beauty we’re denied, and the beauty we make anyway.

May 7 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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April 2026

What happens when we let ourselves be bad at something

Trying, finally, to enter the rabbit hole

Apr 21 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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On Spring Emergence

Hello. It's been a while.

Apr 5 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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June 2023

6 Things I'm Trying to Say More

cloud watching as research. sun napping as research. holding hands as research.

Jun 28, 2023 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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Unlock Your Summer Joy: Join My Workshop! 🎈

The energy this summer is moving at the speed of ease. Learn how in my Create Your Summer Fieldguide Workshop, this Sunday, June 18!

Jun 14, 2023 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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April 2023

Entering my Goo Era

It's about to get sticky 🐛

Apr 13, 2023 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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October 2022

On Wonder’s Insistence

If we listen quietly, we will hear the insistence of wonder ringing everywhere.

Oct 24, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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September 2022

The Carrier Bag and Unknown Horizons

What if time was told through the lens of what has helped us share, rather than conquer? What is reshaped if the protagonist of a story is a “we” rather…

Sep 12, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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May 2022

Time is Water

"I do not believe in time. I do believe in water." Dionne Brand

May 30, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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My creativity is magic, not a brand.

Where creativity dances in the unknown, brands are committed towards fixed and concrete existence.

May 10, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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April 2022

a playlist! 🎷🐛 a merch drop! 🧢✨

helloooo!

Apr 7, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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March 2022

Trusting Creativity as an Abundant Source

In the spirit the power of refusal: what does my creativity denounce? What would it look like to trust that my creative spirit is an ever-abundant…

Mar 30, 2022 • Annika Hansteen-Izora

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