FOOTNOTES MAIN — Mind's Eye

Looking closely at everything,
until something gives.

Skateboarding humbled me at fifteen and it’s doing it again now. This is about belonging to something without anyone else there.

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Footage shows you that something happened. It doesn't make you sit with what it meant. This is about grief, detail, and why only the page has ever really done that.

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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke that left him with one working eyelid. He used it to write a book. The locked in era has everything he didn't, and is using it to look inward. This is about what that inversion actually means.

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The stuff you surround yourself with is your raw material. The seeking, the finding, the placing. This is what separates a life that feels lived from one that merely functions.

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Andy Serkis invented a new form of acting. His face has barely been seen in any of his roles. This is about what the friction was producing before we removed it.

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Heelys were complete, joyful, and asked almost nothing of you. They didn't make it. Looksmaxxing did. This is about the anatomy of a craze and why anxiety outlasts joy every time.

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Gasolina came out in 2004. The world wasn't ready. This is a belated apology for being part of the problem.

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There are two types of people. The Confirmed and the Aspirational. One acts on certainty. The other shows up and trusts something will materialise. A piece about a cubicle in Melbourne Airport.

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A bus has no seating plan. Nobody tells you where to go. And yet everyone goes to exactly the right place, every time, without discussion. This is about what that means.

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Smell is the most underrated sense. It bypasses consent, ambushes you with memory, and proves something was real. No prompt has ever put you somewhere the way a bad smell at a bus stop can.

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The ability to anticipate what's coming has quietly atrophied. Not just around corners. Everywhere. A piece about the collapse of forward thinking and where it went.

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On a building site in Blakehurst, an Italian concreter said something about coffee and cortisol that changed how every day starts. The unexpected source is the whole point.

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Wisteria has one of the most beautiful flowering displays available to a garden. It also girdles trees, fuses itself into fences, and works its way through brickwork for years before anyone notices. This is about why beauty keeps buying things the time they need to do real damage.

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