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As a writer, I was what you might call "art-adjacent" for a long time, and I don't just mean designing my own covers, although I occasionally did that. Art featured as a subject in my work (in "The Concept", "Those Who Disappeared", and "Retrospective", which was subsequently filmed with Charles Dance and Omid Djalili), and some projects (notably "Like Plastic") blurred the boundaries even further.

But increasingly, I found I wanted to explore ideas that couldn't be contained within the literary form, and I toyed more and more with a move into a visual form of expression. The catalyst came in
early 2023. I spent some time in Paris with a few fellow writer friends - on the Left Bank, of all places - and some of the conversations we had there helped to crystallize my thoughts. I started almost immediately on my return, energized by the new medium, and I haven't looked back since.

As for my practice? Well, in some ways it's stayed the same. I use my writing to explore things that are personal to me, but I aim to relate them in the form of a readable story that (hopefully) lingers long in the mind after turning the last page. And so likewise, I use my art to explore the world as I see it, to produce work that viewers find visually striking, but that also makes them think, that embeds itself and leaves a lasting impression. That might seem simple, but making things seem simple never actually is. As you'd expect, the crossover between the visual and the literary is a particular fascination, but I'm by no means limiting myself to that going forward. I wander where I choose, and I create - as I always have - for myself and that elusive one other.

K