PT: Throughout your adventures you’ve kept these travel journals. You should know, they’re fun to look at but difficult to read. Can you read them? What do you get out of them when you look at them?

DZ: I show them and I like them because they’re not typical journals. They’re visually personal and they’re more about my specific feelings in the moment than anything else. Every drawing has something to do with something specific I was looking at in that place and at that time that I had a reaction to.

Crammed In: My feelings towards being cramped in travel so much - so many tiny spaces in all sorts of planes and connections around Europe, including tiny hostels and jammed apartments.

Elephant: I was lying in a room in a hostel in Bangkok and there was this little random elephant carved there on the wall. I saw it and I knew I had to draw it. Every time I look at it I remember that moment lying there just so in awe of the fact that I finally made it to Thailand.

Powertrip: This was the sort of overall feeling of Japan to me…so many wires and lights and cables running power everywhere. It was pretty a pretty stark contrast from the lychee fields of Thailand!

Land Penguin: While driving through Patagonia we kept seeing these guanacos, which are smaller orange llamas. We eventually saw so many I decided there should be less of them, so me and one of the paleontologists invented the gruesome land penguin, one of the few mammals that kills for pleasure. Its favorite food is the guanaco. That day was also my birthday and we visited a penguin nesting area. It was incredible. There were thousands of them.

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