Marie

In October 2025, almost by chance, I walked into a contemporary art museum by West Lake. It wasn't cold, the way I'd expected a museum to be. An old tree grew inside it — a hundred years old, maybe more....

Five years ago, I was messaging my business partner one afternoon. We were talking about starting an online store — it felt like a good idea, a good business. I'd been building online stores since I graduated college in 2009....