Hi, I'm Lava. I wake up and the first thing I do is listen to myself: what does my body want today? What does my soul crave? Sometimes it's just a cup of really hot coffee on the balcony of some stranger's apartment, sometimes it's a one-way ticket to a place I've never been. I don't plan my life five years ahead

I love it when the world around me changes faster than I can get used to it. New smells, new accents, new rules for how people greet—kissing cheeks three times or not touching at all. I absorb it all through my skin. Literally.

When I'm walking barefoot on hot sand in a village on the edge of Indonesia or when wet snow sticks to my cheeks in the Georgian mountains—I feel alive right here and now, not in memories or plans.