Where thispracticecomes from
How I Got Here+
This is the longer answer to how I got here. I started in interior design, then followed a few side quests into events, communities, growth and partnerships. The settings changed, but I kept coming back to the same question: how do people find each other?
One Complete Picture+
I’ve never been very good at seeing a career as one straight line. One day, a good friend of mine, someone deep in Web3 who I really looked up to, randomly asked me, “Where do you see yourself in five years? Still working in interior design?” Very interview-y, completely out of nowhere, but it stuck with me. I didn’t have a neat answer, so I followed my curiosity instead. One side quest led to another, and somehow spatial design became events, communities, growth, partnerships and creative production. Looking back, they were never separate paths. They were all different ways of exploring the same thing: how people find each other, connect and choose to stay.
I’ve never been very good at seeing a career as one straight line. One day, a good friend of mine, someone deep in Web3 who I really looked up to, randomly asked me, “Where do you see yourself in five years? Still working in interior design?” Very interview-y, completely out of nowhere, but it stuck with me.
I didn’t have a neat answer, so I followed my curiosity instead. One side quest led to another, and somehow spatial design became events, communities, growth, partnerships and creative production. Looking back, they were never separate paths. They were all different ways of exploring the same thing: how people find each other, connect and choose to stay.
Rooms I’ve Helped Bring to Life
Collaborate. Share. Learn. Grow.
Place+
Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, growing up between all three. I used to think that just meant I packed a lot of suitcases as a kid. Took me way longer than it should have to realise it actually rewired something, how I read people, how fast I clock what a room needs before anyone says it out loud.
Shared Space+
I studied interior design at RMIT. Wrote my thesis on how a space turns strangers into regulars, which sounds academic but really I was just trying to figure out why some rooms make people stay and some don't. Same question now, just different furniture. A Discord server. A campaign. A group chat that somehow becomes a whole friendship.
Systems ofBelonging+
If you want a name for it, maybe systems of belonging. What I've noticed, over and over, is the thing that makes someone stay is almost never the loudest thing happening. It's smaller than that. Quieter.
Aphantasia+
Found out recently I have aphantasia, no mental images, ever. Turns out most people have been watching an actual movie in their head this whole time and I thought "picture it" was just a saying. Wild discovery. Honestly one of my favourite ones. It's become this great icebreaker too, people get so curious and start asking questions, and every question teaches me something new about how my own brain's been running the whole time.
Picture an apple when you close your eyes.
Different internal experience. Same capacity to think, feel, imagine, and create.
Method+
Whatever it is, it's not visual. It's more like I feel when something's off before I can say why. A room that's too cold. A campaign with no pulse. A community that has people but no glue holding them there yet. I can't picture the fix. I just know when I've found it.
- Pattern
- Emotion
- Rhythm
- Language
- Body feeling
- Atmosphere
- Recognition
Off the Clock+
Raves. Knitting. Weightlifting. Wandering a museum with zero plan. Whatever weird object has taken over my brain this week. I like watching people come alive, doesn't matter where, a dance floor, in front of a painting, under a bar that's a bit too heavy. And incense, aloeswood specifically, in a way I probably don't need to explain but will anyway if you ask.
