Toto Tvalavadze

2026.06

  • Got married to Ludovica in Rome. The week around it was full of friends, family, aperitivi, airport runs, and the particular relief of seeing everyone happily mix together.
  • Kept turning the Rome studio into a real working space: installed the light fixtures, added a proper espresso machine, built out more storage, and started turning the storage room into a 3D-printing room.
  • Spent a weekend in Abruzzo, attended another wedding, and had a long seafood lunch on a trabocco, which is a deeply civilized way to turn a fishing platform into an eating platform.
  • Published Triage, an Obsidian plugin for resurfacing unprocessed notes in an Anki-style queue before they disappear into the vault.
  • Announced Scent of Time, my photobook project from the FotoFilmic Book Program, and shared details for its first public showing in the FBP 2025-26 Photobook Exhibitions on Bowen Island.
  • Finished another sequencing pass for Scent of Time and started preparing the final physical version for printing.
  • Published three notes about interfaces and spatial computing: Attention Platforms Cannot Invent New Interfaces, Hands Are Not Cursors, and Headsets and Glasses Are a Stepping Stone at Best.
  • Returned to Tokyo after the wedding stretch and started settling back into the Kyojima studio rhythm.
  • Picked up a RICOH GR IV Monochrome and started thinking again about the next Out of Memory edit. This is my fourth GR, somehow.
  • Updated parts of toto.photo while continuing to shape the photo side of the work around Scent of Time and Out of Memory.

I did not think I would get married again. Then Ludovica and I started a relationship, and that changed the calculation completely. I’m very happy to have found her and to be building a life with her. The Rome studio being a shared project makes that even better; it already feels like one of the places where this next version of life will take shape.

Looking back, what I like about June is that many small things moved forward without feeling like separate tracks. The studio, the book, the website, the plugins, and the slow shift from Tokyo to Rome all seemed connected: different ways of settling back into the same life, just with a slightly different center of gravity.

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