When my pen touches paper, I begin to understand the thoughts that have been spinning around in my head. As I move through the world, I play a game of association, with my “absurd” logic, connecting things that I feel make sense in ways I can’t always immediately explain. I often become fixated on a single detail, and from that detail I build a map, through drawing, of the things I notice and remember.

Drawing is a way of freezing a moment before it disappears, holding onto places, feelings or encounters I might otherwise forget. It is also how I make sense of the world: why did this thing feel connected to that one? My drawings become storyboards, which I revisit and place side by side to shape narrative and film. Through revisiting and rearranging them, I begin to understand the world I’ve constructed around myself, before returning to these places again through moving image. Drawing is my loading sign.