why anonymous?

I’ve always preferred the background.
The silence behind the signal.
The solitude where things get made.
I personally love obscurity.
If it were entirely up to me, there’d be no photos, no profile, no presence to manage online.
I stopped posting to social media over a decade ago.
Only opened an Instagram to prove I was “real” for a job.
Left the same images up for over a year, untouched, uninterested.
Not because I was hiding—
But because I didn’t need to be seen to feel real.
I’ve never craved the spotlight.
I believe in quiet confidence, in the kind of work that speaks before you do.
I’ve always felt more at home in the unseen.
My preference is to be loved by few, and known by even fewer.
But something shifted.
Not in my values—but in my understanding of responsibility.
This world is loud.
And if you carry light, sometimes you have to let it be seen.
So I’m here.
Not for popularity.
Not to perform.
But to be present.
To show up as a mirror for those walking a similar road—
The ones building from vision, navigating without a map.
The ones called to speak, even when their nature is to stay silent.
This is not a brand.
This is not a persona.
This is a devotion.
To the Supreme.
To the Giver of all gifts.
To the ones who need to know they're not alone in their sacred, slow becoming.
I’m not anonymous because I’m afraid.
I’m anonymous because I’m listening.
Because what I’m doing is not about me.
It’s about the message.
A body of work.
A body of prayer.
A body of truth, shared in shadow and light.
This is how I stay close to the center.
This is how I honor the call.
No map. Just vision.

—N/A

N/A

I am Naya Stone aka Naya Anonymous, NYC made, globally shaped, Mexico based multi-hyphenate creative working at the intersecton of art and design.

https://www.nayaanonymous.art
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