Hi,

About five years ago I bought a drawing tablet to experiment with digital work.

I had tried using one when I was younger, but although I'm left-handed I'd learned to use a mouse with my right hand. The mismatch between using a computer right-handedly and drawing with the left hand was confusing and frustrating, so all my digital work remained right-handed until then.

For those interested in the tech: the tablet was a refurbished Wacom Intuos Pro M. I later replaced it with a second-hand XP-Pen Artist Pro 16, which lets you draw directly on the screen with a stylus. It's now plugged into a Mac mini M4 (which I wanted to play Civilization VII, but that's another story). I mainly use Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo; on my 8th generation iPad I prefer Procreate.

While I was in and out of lockdowns in 2021, adjusting vector curves and trying to make my designs look spontaneous, Americans stormed their Capitol, new COVID-19 variants emerged (along with vaccines!), and at year's end, the James Webb Space Telescope launched. Christian Boltanski and Chuck Close died. And does anyone still remember the NFT fad?

Around the same time, my dad bought a kick-ass printer, giving me the chance to turn my digital experiments into physical objects. You can still rent or buy the first results of that collaboration via Kunst in Huis:

https://www.kunstinhuis.be/shop?search=&order=&custom_filter_0_private=private&custom_filter_0_corporate=corporate&custom_filter_1_available=available&custom_filter_1_unavailable=unavailable&custom_filter_5_40744=40744

Yours truly,

crrmnsrg