Rishi Keshe Hirway

That question is also a part of who I am, even if I don't have the answer.

Wow, that's a great question.

I think there's a feeling that I'm always striving for that comes from one of my earliest memories of listening to music.

When I was a little kid, my parents, you know, would play old Bollywood songs.

And I remember hearing, you know, Asha Bosley in a recording from a soundtrack from like the 1960s.

And as a little kid experiencing nostalgia.

and not even nostalgia for something of my own because it was from before when I was born.

But there was something in the music and something in the sound of the recording that had this memory and this ache in it.

It made me sad, but I also wanted to linger in it.

It just drew me in, in a way that I think has stayed with me forever.

That was the feeling that I wanted to reach for.

That was a particular kind of beauty

that I was really interested in.

And I think that I've either consciously or unconsciously made that a part of my work ever since.

And so part of getting to that is explicitly talking about memory and thinking about memory and thinking about the things that make us who we are.

I really...

love talking to people.

I love getting to know people.

And I think people's stories are so fascinating.

And I'm particularly drawn to origin stories.