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“I don’t publish often. I’m slow with my craft and between creating, I return to my older work – to see what I can learn from who I was then.”

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“I imagine some artists like myself love the spotlight. It is a beautiful thing to have your art recognised. for it to be admired like a flower in the field. But I wonder, does a flower know it’s a marvel? Does it feel pleasure to be adored? Does it realise when it’s been cut? that it’s been commodified, that an entire value chain exists around it, that hands will decide its worth or would it prefer to be left alone, admired from a distance, its petals untouched, for the bees, for the air. I wonder…”

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“I think of my days as an aviation aficionado, obsessed with the Gripen ( not yet knowing what war machines cost us), watching fighter jets break the sound barrier. The jet would pass before the boom, delaying time so the object arrived before its sound. That’s how some of us move through this world, seen long before we’re heard. The world says "too late," but we’re exactly on time, aligned. Things happen when the conditions align. And this is what I am returning to, a rhythm that keeps me kin to the land. Land not as metaphor, but the taproot of my lineage. To honour this means inviting imvelo into my creative practice. It means slowing down. It means sitting with the stress of being an artist who reveres the earth while participating in the machine that devours it.”

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