Year of Love

Letter #59

Lina Scheynius — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:30:13 GMT

Hi,

It is September 1st. I started a letter just this way a year ago and I thought this would be a great time for a check in. Did I manage to work the way I set out to do? What have I learnt? And would I like to change anything in the protocol?

You can read the whole letter here:

But these are the specific parts from last years letter that I want to dive deeper into:

*The working day 5 days a week starts with a creative hour. This creative hour can include any kind of creative activity I am in the mood for. Drawing, writing, dancing - whatever keeps the creative muscle alive and signals to myself that creativity is the most important part of my working day and the foundation that everything else rests upon.

*Only use instagram on Wednesday and Thursday. This is also a question of priority. Hopefully I will have gotten through a lot of important work tasks on Monday and Tuesday when I am feeling most fresh from the weekend. Instagram needs to take a back seat. I can not not be there yet, and I don’t think it’s only bad, but I can actively change my priorities. And hopefully be more focused and present wherever I am.

*Fridays are for creative work only. Or if I feel tired then the weekend can start here and last three days. Absolutely no admin or meetings or emails. Only fun.

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Lina Scheynius — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:53:38 GMT

This was the newsletter I mentioned from a year ago:

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Lina Scheynius — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:22:33 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:13:32 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:23:29 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:24:39 GMT

Letter #58

Lina Scheynius — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:03:31 GMT

The foundation of my practice is self portraiture. I took my first one age 10 as soon as I got my first camera. I dressed up in a cowboy hat and sunglasses and took a picture of myself in the mirror. I have no idea why. It was not something that my mother or father had done before me, it was not part of the family albums before this. Had I seen any other self portraits in mirrors? I am not sure I had. But it is the easiest way to take a self portrait. Or at least it was before we got our smart phones. I have now taken 1000s of pictures of myself in many different ways with varied results.

This letter is my guide to self portraiture.

(This email is too long for most emails so make sure you open it on Substack)

USE A TRIPOD

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Lina Scheynius — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:27:12 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:15:11 GMT

Letter #57

Lina Scheynius — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:59:14 GMT

Week one. Extracts from my diary.

Kavala Day one,

I am going to make a schedule. A schedule where I write with pen and paper one hour per day about absolutely anything I want to. And where I after th…

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Lina Scheynius — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:29:11 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:57:05 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:45:12 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:46:28 GMT

Letter #56

Lina Scheynius — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:01:24 GMT

11 December 2000, Tokyo

In one week I will pack my bags and return home. And now I know what I want more than I did before. I have always known that I didn’t want to follow the norm but I wasn’t sure what I was going to do instead. Now I know. I am going to become a happy artist. I am going to live life they way I want to and not the way I am expected to. Only then will I manage to be happy. Things will be done from a place of desire and not from a place of duty. And I am going to travel. See things. Experience and take in everything I can in order to turn it into art. I need to be more open to people too. The way Viktoria is, and not be suspicious like my mum. And I need to listen to myself. Listen to my own feelings. I wasn’t sure if it would be good for me to spend this much time alone with my own thoughts as I have done during this trip. Now I know that it has been good. I know now what I want and it is not entangled in what others want from or for me.

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Lina Scheynius — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:35:23 GMT

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Lina Scheynius — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:42:41 GMT

https://archive.org/details/corinne-day-diary?

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Lina Scheynius — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:41:42 GMT

Letter #55

Lina Scheynius — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:03:30 GMT

I see my inner thigh wobble as I lay on the floor and do Pilates, I see the skin on my neck soften and crease like velvet as I move my head to the side, I see the lines in my forehead that no longer disappear after a frown, I see new moles spread over my torso and I see the thin blue spider veins on my thighs. I don’t know what I am supposed to do with what I see. I just have a deep understanding that I am not supposed to look this way, I can clearly see that I am losing hold on beauty - the gift of beauty that I was once given is about to be taken back.

Whose fucking eyes are those looking at me through my own though? Who has decided that I can never weigh more than 58 kilograms? That I shouldn’t age? That my body is a problem to solve? I stopped modelling at 26, I am a successful artist, and yet I cannot seem to ever completely forget.