Writings

Other lives lived -- Introduction

Other lives lived -- Introduction

It's the first week in July, 2000. I am in Bali and I am 26 years old. I have been there 6 months, slowly going crazy, literally.    I will...

Other lives lived -- Introduction

It's the first week in July, 2000. I am in Bali and I am 26 years old. I have been there 6 months, slowly going crazy, literally.    I will...

I Was A Gamelan Groupie

I Was A Gamelan Groupie

This is not a story with a strong punchline. It is something I witnessed, something that no one else knew was happening. The collision of two powerful "regimes", unknowingly. A...

I Was A Gamelan Groupie

This is not a story with a strong punchline. It is something I witnessed, something that no one else knew was happening. The collision of two powerful "regimes", unknowingly. A...

BLURRED LINES: on cultural appropriation

BLURRED LINES: on cultural appropriation

A jeweller's reflection on cultural appropriation, inspiration, and the blurry line between borrowing and exploitation — from Bali to the Northwest Coast.

BLURRED LINES: on cultural appropriation

A jeweller's reflection on cultural appropriation, inspiration, and the blurry line between borrowing and exploitation — from Bali to the Northwest Coast.

Splinters Of Happiness

Splinters Of Happiness

On depression, joy as pain, and the concept of 'splinters of happiness' — a reflection on Imre Kertész's Fatelessness and living with bipolar

Splinters Of Happiness

On depression, joy as pain, and the concept of 'splinters of happiness' — a reflection on Imre Kertész's Fatelessness and living with bipolar

She Would Have Been An Artist

She Would Have Been An Artist

A memoir of beauty, loss, and madness — tracing matrilineal memory through antiques, Alzheimer's, and a year of nine deaths.

She Would Have Been An Artist

A memoir of beauty, loss, and madness — tracing matrilineal memory through antiques, Alzheimer's, and a year of nine deaths.