An abstract painting with various shapes
An abstract painting with various shapes
“Composition X” (1939) by Wassily Kandinsky

What It’s Like to Hear the World in Color and in Touch

Silly stories of synesthesia, music, filmmaking, and my brain

Jules F. Chin Greene
Nov 3 · 6 min read

The chorus of Shape of You by Ed Sheeran makes me cringe, because it feels like cold, soggy neoprene pressing against my arms. It’s really, really uncomfortable.

In tenth grade, I had to will myself to finish reading George Orwell’s 1984

Jules F. Chin Greene

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Chinese-Māori and Irish-Scottish American filmmaker writing about pop culture. Aggressively afraid of zombies. https://www.instagram.com/infinitevibes/

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