This morning I was walking with my headphones on, as I almost always do. Invisible — Piano Version by NTO started playing. NTO is one of my favourite producers, and almost immediately I felt the music take over my body. I don’t really know how else to describe it. For a few seconds, I wasn’t…

There is still a melon at Waitrose that is haunting me. I wrote about it before because it cost £7.88, which I already considered a completely unreasonable amount of money for a melon. I didn’t buy it. I just picked it up and smelled it, and immediately I was somewhere else: Tuscany, home, markets, summer.…

One of the things I love most about writing this Artist Diary is that I have no idea where it is going. I can’t wait until I’ve been doing it for a year, because I want to be able to look back and see what happened to one person, creatively and personally, over twelve months.…

The last couple of days have been difficult. I’m not going to write about what happened because some things don’t belong here, and the details aren’t really important for what I want to say. What matters is the effect they had on me. Something happened that started taking up far too much space in my…

I’ve been keeping this quiet for a little while because I really didn’t want to jinx it, but now I can finally say it because it’s done: I moved. Today was moving day, and I’m writing this surrounded by bags, boxes and all the usual chaos of trying to work out where everything should go.…

Today I walked to Trafalgar Square. Walking through London is never just a way for me to get from one place to another. I walk whenever I can because the journey itself is part of the experience. It gives me time to think, to look around, to notice streets and buildings, to discover parts of…

Yesterday I spent the entire day working on my new book. This is the second book I have written, but the process has been completely different from the first one. With my first book, I had to go inside my memory. I made a timeline, divided my life into events, tried to remember places, conversations,…

Today I was watching a video on YouTube. It was nothing dramatic. Nothing particularly extraordinary. Just a mum and her little daughter preparing her backpack for her first day of primary school. And I got emotional. Really emotional. At first I didn’t even completely understand why. I was watching them choosing where to put things,…

Last night, I slept. I SLEPT!!! Not the kind of sleep where you wake up ten times, check the time, turn around, fall asleep again, wake up again. I mean, I really slept. Deeply. Straight through until 6:30 in the morning. I can’t believe it. I slept. And when I opened my eyes, the first…

Today I was watching a video on YouTube when the YouTuber mentioned a game that has apparently been going around the internet. It’s called 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 with ChatGPT. Obviously, I immediately paused the video. Because apparently I’m not the kind of person who can hear about something interesting and think, “Oh,…