I Asked for This Life. So Why Does It Keep Changing Me?

I built a creative career out of small, honest pieces of work. The kind that feel like fragments of a thought rather than a finished answer.

But the more visible that work became, the more things started to shift. Expectations, pressure, pace, even my relationship to the work itself.

This talk isn’t about reinvention or chasing growth. It’s about what happens when things change around you faster than you can process them. When your creativity starts to feel like output instead of instinct. When you realise you’ve built something you now have to keep up with.

Through my practice of tin embossing, writing, and collecting small moments, I’ll share how I’ve learned to work with change rather than constantly trying to control it.

This is a talk about staying soft in the middle of movement, and making work that still feels like yours.