I’ve spent a long time fascinated by the way humans create heroes. Not just in comic books or films, but across history, across cultures, across entire civilisations. Whether it’s a prophet in the desert, a warrior king, a saint, a celebrity, or a man in a cape, the instinct behind these stories seems to repeat itself with an almost biological certainty. It’s one of the most...

Leonardo da Vinci has always fascinated me — not just as an artist, but as a thinker who refused to be limited by definition. He was a painter, an inventor, an engineer, an anatomist, and a visionary whose curiosity extended into every corner of existence. Long before the world had language for concepts like “multidisciplinary” or “cross-disciplinary practice”,...

Being an artist is hard. Not the creating part — that’s the joy, the escape, the thing that makes all the struggle worth it. The hard part is everything around it. Trying to find opportunities. Fighting algorithms that seem designed to bury you. Searching for collaborators who actually get you. Feeling like you’re shouting into the void, hoping someone out there is listening....