VIII.
...or when the world
shatters
because in one frame
a child is playing by the sea,
alive—
in your mind at least—
falling through memory
and time.
But in another frame,
it is a Monday night
and the pots and pans
need washing,
and nothing is happening.
Just the world.
Just time.
-- from The closest thing to flying is seeing the world upside-down (2019)
I am a writer, artist, director and Storyteller who wonders what else stories can be and do. With a particular interest in metafictions, (historical) fantasy and the mortality of fictional characters, I experiment with writing and story development across mediums. My works have been described as “the bedtime stories that we forgot to tell” and reflect both a poetic sensibility and an attitude* inspired by the Heraclitan fragment “Time is a child playing…” I am driven by processes that strive to be experimental, instinctual, imaginative and accessible.
I earned a BA in Film & Media at Dartmouth College in the US and an MA in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art in London.
A few things I like
to think about:
-
writing (in a fictional,
immersive, poetic way)
-
stories that are like testing grounds
-
musicals, epic poetry and
(surreal) historical fictions
-
belief and coast lines
-
frame lines
-
the edge of singing
-
alternative ways of accessing and generating stories
*Read about the development of this attitude here