What happens when a poet picks up a pen and remembers she likes to sketch too:) I write poetry over at @words.bycm on IG and since Inktober is here, I thought it was time to let that side of me out of its little corner of Instagram.

This is 'What Is Freedom?', a poem I wrote about a blue bird that spends its life fighting to escape a cage, only to find its wings clipped when the door finally opens.

A little existential crisis, now available in ink.

I wanted to bring the poem into a visual form, keeping the bird, the open cage, and that big, complicated idea of freedom at the heart of it.

For the writers, designers, and other creative shape-shifters here: what side of your creativity would you bring to Inktober?

this is so gorgeous!

Damask Daydream grew out of my love for the soft pink of old parlours, which is why most of the style is drawn from pale damask, embroidered silk and gilded chairs dressed in striped fabric. In those rooms pink was the color of private luxury and quiet romance, and I wanted that same warmth to carry through every page of the series.

On its own that pink could easily feel like decoration, so I paired it with a romantic sunset landscape and a naive jungle painting that bring in glowing skies, oversized leaves and a gentle sense of strangeness. Those two paintings are what tip the style into pop surrealism, as though the parlour had drifted off to sleep and begun to dream.

The series imagines the pages of a fashion art book that was never published, a collection of editorial covers shot inside that dream. Real models with natural faces share each frame with giant blooms, enormous fruit and objects that grow in impossible ways, turning every image into a botanical surrealist spread where the colors and textures of the past quietly shape a very modern world.

Damask Daydream Style Video