There is a quote from Calvin and Hobbes, “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want” (Bill Watterson), that reflects the hypothetical ideal experience of a summer. Summers before entering the workforce are rare, liminal times that reflect a person’s desires, joys, and dreams. Summers are times of freedom, but they are also limited by the inevitable return to scheduled responsibility. At the boundary of the present and future, summers are inherent spaces to question life’s trajectories, to ponder.

“All The Nothing We Want” tracks a journey through one final summer, and the dichotomy therein. This series is a reckoning with idealized non-productivity, a reflection of humanity’s wonder and introspection in the unadulterated nothing of summer.