FIELD NOTES | From the Artist's Sketchbook
A private look into the poems, profiles, and early ideas that became the foundation for HunchMaker.
Before a gallery exhibits a masterpiece, the artist's studio is filled with sketches, and abandoned canvases. They are the record of the journey, the search for a clearer signal, and the quiet practice that makes the final piece possible.
HunchMaker has its own sketchbook.
Before the cinematic Preludes and before the Monthly Films, there was a collection of writing: poems, profiles, and personal essays where I was searching for the themes that now define this project. These were my first attempts to articulate the ideas that you and I are now exploring together, like trusting the process, and finding the signal in the noise.
As a valued member of this community, you make the future of HunchMaker possible. As a small thank you, I wanted to give you private access to its past. This post is a living index, a key to the sketchbook, where you can browse the foundational texts that led us here.
The Artist's Sketchbook: A Curated Index
Foundational Profiles
These were my first attempts to find the universal lessons hidden inside individual stories.
Patrick Horstmann: The Other Kind of Risk
A portrait of choosing the wild on purpose. Patrick and Wandermut build a life around expedition, friendship, and curiosity. This story looks at how a shared passion becomes a real path, and what it takes to draw your own map when no map exists.Anna Pixner: A Guide to Stepping Into the Light
A study in quiet leadership. Anna shows how meaningful work often happens offstage. It is a piece about turning vision into action, taking responsibility without seeking the spotlight, and building momentum through steady, practical craft.Lena Stübner: A Dream Against All Odds
A clear-eyed look at perseverance. This story follows a dream that refuses to quit, and the discipline required to keep going when resources, timing, and circumstances do not cooperate.Sarah Parent: How a Single Hunch Can Grow a Forest
An invitation to rebuild our relationship with living systems. Sarah's work blends patience, care, and craft to bring forgotten places back to life. It is about wonder as a practice and stewardship as a daily choice.
Early Poetic Musings
A collection of shorter, more lyrical pieces where I tried to capture a feeling or a single, fragile idea.
When the Well Runs Dry
A meditation on holding ambition and fear at the same time, and moving anyway.The Alchemy of Agency
A meditation on the choice between victim and master, and the courage it takes to admit we've been fooling ourselves.On the Power of Thought
A meditation on the quiet, fragile state of clarity, and the discipline it takes to protect it from the noise of our own ambition.On Dangerous Desires
An exploration of impulse and discipline, and the cost of trading depth for a quick hit.
These pieces are the roots of the tree we are now building. They are the hunches that started it all.
Thank you for being here to see what they grow into.
My question for our community is this: What is the one 'sketch' in your own past? Think of an old project, a forgotten hobby, or an 'embarrassing' first attempt that you now realise was the essential seed for who you are today?
I look forward to reading your reflections in the private members' discussion.
Trust the hunch. Find the story.
Antoine
