I questioned the merit of creating this website. The internet could easily have done without it, just as we all could without the internet. Within the infinitive of my curiosity laid a desire to consolidate in one place everything I had created or contributed to over the last five years. Of course, this ‘everything’ doesn’t include absolutely everything—certainly not the collection of sketches, drafts, collages, and project notes from the same period. One such drawing heads this page—a whirlwind of values that I honour for their guiding light along occasionally unlit creative paths.

Talent—that coveted fast-track ticket—might have accelerated these five years, still I maintain that unwavering conviction provides the true season pass (even if not in first class). However,  there’s no point in lamenting unreachable destinations when, scale-wise, in a hundred years, humanity will likely have more visible evidence of Hadrian’s Rome than of our modern world of optical fibre, rapid learning and swift forgetting.

I prefer working with principles that haven’t been proven yet. This approach provides certain advantages. At the same time, I acknowledge that perfect answers don’t exist. When entering the space of a fresh idea or new narrative, contemplating how to find the best combinations of elements and styles, how to imitate life—you already find yourself in a state of creativity. While each new form inherently contains the seed of its own destruction, very few experiences match the thrill of materializing an idea. 

In retrospect, the picture of the world always seems to be composed differently; the ‘recent,’ having taken on the final form of a shadow, smudge, or brushstroke, appears more fitting than before. Yet this illusion is too cheap an attempt at deception. If given the chance to reorganize everything, to invert it all, perhaps that’s what should be done. Though even without magical interventions, I find satisfaction in emerging abstraction. Soon I’ll step back—to be surprised by its density, to smile, to sneeze—then approach again, adjust, let go. Ideas that don’t fit today may very well find their place tomorrow.