As it’s the start of a new year, I decided to try something completely new, something I’ve never done before, which is pottery! I thought for once I’d like to try and create something physical and tactile, something I can hold in my hand. After a month, I learnt that pottery is something you can’t really understand just learning by looking or thinking your way through , but something you have to feel through your hands. The moisture of the clay and how much pressure you exert into the clay, you can only feel it. Rather than going over and over in my about how it would turn out, I’m guessing the start of learning something new is not worrying about doing perfectly. So far I have successfully threw the mug and this bowl together, they have been coated with glaze, and as I am typing this out, they are on their way to the kiln to get fired up!

A baby dragon and a firefly were born under the same lemony moonlight, they look after each other like brothers

I just always had this idea of gargantuan axolotls lurking in the river of afterlife, gobbling up souls as they swimmingly go about their day under the murky waters

So this is the first time I ever attempted composing any music. I was inspired by this song "You matter to me" from the musical, Waitress. There's a spoken part in the middle of the song that goes "I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight. They don't pull away, they don't look at your face, and they don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without any ounce of selfishness in it" I wanted to capture that feeling, started out with this warm feeling of being suddenly engulfed in this softness and then you get this brief moment of kinda weird doubt and uneasy, that you don't know this is real. And them choosing to stay in this with you reassures that same wamrth you felt in the first place. I don't actually know what that feels like, but I'd like to imagine this is what it would feel like. I wrote to the two instruments I know how to play, viola and guitar.

A beluga whale swimming through moss covered cavern. Or at least the start of it I think