About

By the age of five I'd figured out how the sounds of individual letters more or less combined to make words. I dived headlong into the great works of literature: the Bible and my mum’s gossip magazines. I took great delight in earnestly predicting her future by reading the weekly Virgo horoscope aloud, met with much maternal eye-rolling. Then I figured I could have a go myself. So I did. I started writing stories and ‘What I did on my holidays’ essays that had my teachers deeply concerned. At fifteen, I picked up a camera and discovered another way of describing the world. Some childhood obsessions, it turns out, stick around.

Writing is how I make sense of things. It’s self-examination as well as externalisation. And this is where I do that: fortnightly full-length articles about culture, creativity and the world we’re all figuring out together, as well as shorter observations and commentaries, alongside archival and new photographic work and even the occasional cat photo.

Free readers get the occasional piece, enough to know if this is your kind of thing. Paid readers get everything: every article, the complete archive, and the things that grab my attention between articles. Founding members get all of that, plus the occasional work in progress, personal updates and small moments that don’t quite fit anywhere else. And my genuine and 100% unironic gratitude.

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