One Messy Year: A Year of Essays About Art, Belonging and Coming Out.
In May 2023, math– then Sarah– began a weekly newsletter called Art Date to write about burn-out, art-making, and finding more creative agency and connection in the sprawling isolation of Los Angeles. What resulted was a wild year filled with rejections, wins, an appearance on Good morning america, a digital detox, and the beginning of a multi-year process of coming out as trans.
One Messy Year is the first in a series of essay compilations archiving the Art Date writings. This comprehensive collection from May 2023–May 2024 includes work that has previously gone unpublished.
“math somehow manages to capture the exact texture of looking closely at the world—gentle, smart, curious, never pretentious. His writing feels like going on a tiny field trip with someone who notices all the good, strange, beautiful bits you might’ve missed.”
— Carissa Potter of Breathe Through It: An Interactive Guide to Ease Your Anxiety Through Meditation
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Art Date
Art Date is a Substack and occasional podcast about art, belonging, living in Los Angeles, and then new mexico. It’s about finding inspiration despite burn-out, boredom, art world shenanigans, Instgram overload, and all the other stuff that gets in the way of expanding into the creative beings we were meant to be. I wrote bi-weekly, then weekly essays on Substack, then Medium, then at the end of my third and final year, they went out as independent emails to my mailing list.
You can read the full Archive of art date from 2023 - 2025: artdate.substack.com
and on Medium: thibault2studio.medium.com
Art date ended in May 2026 and is being compiled into the art date essay series:
One Messy year - released January 2026
an even messier year - set to release november 2026
the messiest year yet - set to release may 2027