The Permission You Never Asked For

There’s something quietly devastating about the title I’ve Always Wanted To Do This—Dan Cermak’s project captures the particular sadness of deferred living, all the things we put off until conditions improve, until we have more time or money or nerve or whatever else we’ve decided we need first. What Cermak finds, in the gap between wanting something and finally doing it, is where all the real feeling tends to live. Not in the act itself, but in the small moment of finally not waiting anymore.