Morning Rituals with Alex Tieghi-Walker

Do you have a morning ritual?

Could you tell us a bit about your work?

 

You recently moved to Los Angeles (welcome!). Where else have you lived, and what has prompted the moves to different places around the world?

  

 

What do you like about Los Angeles?

 

Oh it's just so mythical isn't it? It's this place that is constantly represented and referenced in culture: films, literature, music, art.. So when you're here it feels otherworldly, like it doesn't actually exist, except it does and you are walking around (or driving around) in it.

 

It has a draw for so many creatives and I think it's because nobody fully understands it; layers and stories sit so strangely together here. For example, I like the sort of L.A. noirthat you see in crumbling Koreatown apartment buildings, and the gothic bridges over the river in Downtown, and the city after dark.

 

Then I love the little casitas, tumbling bougainvillea and winding alleyways of the Silver Lake Hills, which just feel the opposite of that.. you can basically place yourself in any narrative you like here, it's complex, and I like complex cities. I feel Mexico City has that, too, and Naples. 

 

 

It seems like your relationship to the land is integral to your relationship to home. What makes a place home for you? What are your favorite parts of having a home?

  

  

 

What's a typical work day like for you? 

 

What was the path into doing the kind of creative work you do?

  

You recently made your first overland trip across the US. How was the road trip? Any insights or surprise finds along the way?