After being interviewed by Arts to Hearts Project, I realised the questions revealed as much about my work as my answers. This reflection explores what I learned about connection, light, stillness, and the evolving direction of the God's Rope series.

I was eight years old when I was told to kill a fly.

I didn’t want to. But I did it anyway.

And the moment it stopped moving, something in me shifted. It didn’t feel small. It didn’t feel like nothing.

What happened after stayed with me far longer than the act itself.

A moment of quiet trust between a dog and a human, where nothing is spoken and nothing needs to be. Before Words explores the stillness of connection, and the unseen bond that exists before language.

A reflection on the completion of Before the Thread Was Named, exploring stillness, trust, and the quiet connections that form between people and animals within the God’s Rope series.