Writer & artist Igan D'Bayan
Igan D’Bayan is a writer and artist based in Manila. For two decades he has written about art, music, and travel for newspapers and journals. POSTMARK is where those stories live now — unhurried, and entirely his own.
Ronald Ventura Mounts a Collateral Show at the 61st Venice Art Biennale
At the 61st Venice Art Biennale, Ronald Ventura’s “LUNA” collapses the distance between two tidal cities — Venice and his native Malabon. Notes from the opening, and a friendship that goes back to 4 a.m. in the ’90s.
A First Look Inside Maison Verde, Lisbon’s Newest Retreat
An invitation to the opening of a quiet new hideaway above the Alfama — and a weekend spent finding out whether the calm is real.
Forty-Eight Hours in Kyoto Without a Map
Two days of getting deliberately lost — temple bells, a tea master who refused to hurry, and the quiet north of the city.
The Night Train to the Scottish Highlands
A berth the size of a cupboard, a dram in the lounge car, and waking to mist over Rannoch Moor.
A Week of Doing Nothing in Naxos
No itinerary, no sights, no plan beyond lunch — the most restorative holiday I’ve taken in years.
The Tokyo Listening Bar Where Nobody Speaks
One turntable, four hundred records, and a rule that the music comes first. An evening at a jazz kissa in Shibuya.
In Praise of the Slow Morning
On coffee made by hand, the small discipline of not reaching for the phone, and why the first hour sets the whole day.
Learning to Make Pasta from a Nonna in Bologna
Flour on every surface, a rolling pin older than me, and the slow truth that good tortellini cannot be rushed.
The Case for One Good Knife
Why a single well-made blade beats a drawer full of gadgets — and what owning less in the kitchen taught me everywhere else.
What a Year of Saying No Taught Me
A small experiment in declining things — and the surprising amount of life that turned up in the space left behind.