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!

Can looking at something change what you see?

I wanted to put Canva Craft to test with an idea I've been sitting with lately: the Observer Effect.

It's a concept that got me thinking about the relationship between observation and reality, and how our understanding of what we see can get a little philosophical (and existential) very quickly:)

I gave Craft two different directions to interpret the same idea.

A: The Cosmic Observer takes a human perspective against the scale of the universe.

B: The Universe Looking Back turns the gaze itself into the subject, blurring the line between the observer and the observed.

I wanted to see how Craft would translate something this abstract into a poster and how differently it would approach the brief.

Which direction would you choose, A or B?

This is so cool!