“Letters to Lene’s” Brand Philosophy
“Attempting to elucidate the mind and matter of the individual”.
Frequently Asked Questions
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“Letters to Lene” is a hybrid cyberspace that utilizes creative and academic writing, photography, and digital curation to explore and explicate the human condition.
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“Letters to Lene” is a pastiche of the literary luminary Franz Kafka for his veracious eye, salient insights, and enviable surrealist form.
Not to be mistaken as an assent to the publishing of his private works, journals, and letters. The referential nature of “Letters to Milena” in particular was a serendipitous synchronicity.
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I am a Danish-American creative director, writer, essayist, & photographer. Read more here.
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While the two adjectives are usually combatants leveraged to deconstruct the other, I have found my work lies upon the intersectional median of their polarity. My work utilizes the rich, high-fidelity prose of the 19th and 20th centuries to fabricate a modernized ontological perspective.
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I am drawn to existentialist inquiry, lived subjectivity, absurdism, interpretive action, multi-perspectivity, the avant-garde, & the interplay of social dynamics.
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Despite my affinity for high-detail maximalist classic literature, my outward aesthetic is rooted in minimalism. I emphasize color continuity, monochromatic & neutral palettes, and capsule pieces. A generalized subsumption of examples includes, but is not limited to, 1990s minimalism & Y2K futurism. Though I always select pieces that are authentic representations.
“Letters to Lene” as experienced through the Aristotelian Triad or the Three Rhetorical Appeals:
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I employ a character-driven schema where the characters directly influence and evolve the narrative.
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I seek to elucidate the mind and matter of the individual. I place a tacit emphasis on one’s interiority and its resounding influence in an externalized world.
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My writing style is considered maximalist and lexically verbose. I weave allusive quandaries, conceptual relativity, and complex characterization together for a literary fiction forward audience.