“A dérivée requires you to pay attention to the world around you, to allow your feelings, intuition and experiences to guide to you through an exploration of a city,” Ryan Gravel states in the book ‘Where We Want to Live.’ It is the idea of Dérivée that encouraged me to travel to Bali, Singapore, Paris, and London for several months. I wrote this book during my travels and later designed it as a way to memorialize my journey.