Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth — or rather, a place on the internet, and that place is Sufjan Stevens' Instagram account, of course.
As it has been for a number of years, @sufjan has been "rebroadcasting sufjan.com" (Stevens' Tumblr-hosted homepage), posting inspirational quotes, visual artwork, music and various ephemera. However, recently — seemingly inspired by Stevens' move from the hustle and bustle of New York City to the picturesque Catskills Mountains — his posts have taken on a much more tranquil mood, as the artist offers up photos of his homesteading yield, craft projects, tie-dyed textiles and the sort.
You can trace this slow-going shift back to June of this year, which appears to be around the time Stevens began photographing his harvests. As he told Exclaim! back in 2020, "My life now is a lot more rural and more like a farmer's life." That's evidenced by his self-proclaimed "garden blog," which often includes pictures of eggs, zucchinis, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, sunflowers, radishes, squash and other veggies — sometimes arranged into goofy faces or accompanied by messages written in sauce.
In July, those posts were joined by an apparent new hobby of Stevens': textile art. "It's tie-dye time," the musician captioned a photo of a dyed T-shirt this summer. "Be safe out there," he added. Many tie-dye posts would follow in the ensuing months. A charming mash-up of his two interests came in the form of a post about watermelon radishes, which Stevens wrote were "serving Shibori realness." (For the uninitiated, Shibori is a Japanese tie-dye technique.)
Stevens' new hobbies seem to correlate to his recent admission that he was taking a step back from music for the time being. His interests seem to have shifted following a massive output of musical projects since the pandemic began, including 2020's Aporia with Lowell Brams and The Ascension, plus this year's Convocations and A Beginner's Mind with Angelo De Augustine.
As he told WYNC last month, "I'm always working on something, and I always have like three albums just on the sidelines, waiting to happen. But, I think it's time for me to take a break, you know? And step back and just be, and listen." Similarly, back around the release of The Ascension, Stevens told us he expected to take a solid five-year break between albums — even if those plans didn't exactly pan out.
While Stevens takes a well-deserved break (and we keep our fingers crossed that it'll be a short one), enjoy a selection of his extremely chill Instagram posts below.
As it has been for a number of years, @sufjan has been "rebroadcasting sufjan.com" (Stevens' Tumblr-hosted homepage), posting inspirational quotes, visual artwork, music and various ephemera. However, recently — seemingly inspired by Stevens' move from the hustle and bustle of New York City to the picturesque Catskills Mountains — his posts have taken on a much more tranquil mood, as the artist offers up photos of his homesteading yield, craft projects, tie-dyed textiles and the sort.
You can trace this slow-going shift back to June of this year, which appears to be around the time Stevens began photographing his harvests. As he told Exclaim! back in 2020, "My life now is a lot more rural and more like a farmer's life." That's evidenced by his self-proclaimed "garden blog," which often includes pictures of eggs, zucchinis, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, sunflowers, radishes, squash and other veggies — sometimes arranged into goofy faces or accompanied by messages written in sauce.
In July, those posts were joined by an apparent new hobby of Stevens': textile art. "It's tie-dye time," the musician captioned a photo of a dyed T-shirt this summer. "Be safe out there," he added. Many tie-dye posts would follow in the ensuing months. A charming mash-up of his two interests came in the form of a post about watermelon radishes, which Stevens wrote were "serving Shibori realness." (For the uninitiated, Shibori is a Japanese tie-dye technique.)
Stevens' new hobbies seem to correlate to his recent admission that he was taking a step back from music for the time being. His interests seem to have shifted following a massive output of musical projects since the pandemic began, including 2020's Aporia with Lowell Brams and The Ascension, plus this year's Convocations and A Beginner's Mind with Angelo De Augustine.
As he told WYNC last month, "I'm always working on something, and I always have like three albums just on the sidelines, waiting to happen. But, I think it's time for me to take a break, you know? And step back and just be, and listen." Similarly, back around the release of The Ascension, Stevens told us he expected to take a solid five-year break between albums — even if those plans didn't exactly pan out.
While Stevens takes a well-deserved break (and we keep our fingers crossed that it'll be a short one), enjoy a selection of his extremely chill Instagram posts below.
