Navied Mahdavian

Yeah, well, then there are the ideas.

So most of the work that I've been doing in the past couple of years since I finished the book, I went from the single gag cartoons to comics that are about me and like the memoir.

And so using myself as a starting point to explore things that in that moment are interesting.

But there are, I think they fit into...

There are themes and genres.

And so I think I'm just exploring those through these little nuggets.

And so I don't know if that exploration is ever... So there's the craft and then there is the idea.

And I'm exploring the idea while refining the craft and then figuring out new ways to explore those ideas together.

Yeah.

So I think in the past, I have a five-year-old daughter.

And I think within the first four years of her life, she lived in four different cities in two countries.

And I think we always say kids are really resilient.

But then I think we're really resilient sometimes.

Um, but I don't know if that process does get easier.

And I think that there's always the destabilizing and then the always, and I think like as you get older, it becomes harder to make friends and like you have the certain things that are anchoring.

Um, but one of the questions that I explore in my book is what is home?

So it's like searching for home and very rural America.

But I think that that's just like what we're constantly doing no matter where we are.

And I think we have like those, the,

concentric circles where you have your immediate home, like your house, and then you have your yard and your wider community.