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... Read more...
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... Read more...
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. Read more...
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 Read more...
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. Read more...