Quarters

The bear with the staff is me, the bear in the green dress is my partner, and the dog was Elle, the only one of us who never had anything to prove. The red sash is a nod to Chen-style tai chi: years spent learning to stand upright, and I’m still working on it.

If you’re here to assess me professionally, my CV is on LinkedIn. The bears stay: I take myself seriously enough to deliver things that work; anything beyond that is unnecessary.

I get caught up in things that take time and patience, even when I have neither.

Starting courses I will never put into practice, taking photographs I won't delete even when they aren't perfect, taking things apart to understand how they work, being won over by the elegance of simplicity.

I like getting my hands dirty: assembling, fixing, thinking it through, and starting over when something doesn't convince me. Which happens often; losing patience when I can't get it right is part of the game too.

I spend too much time in front of screens, but that is not where everything happens. There are terrariums, a reflex camera, trips to the countryside, small circuits, notebooks, games, animals and an unreasonable number of projects left half-finished.