I’m still unpacking this working from an emotional perspective.

In my life, technology has often felt like a safer and more stable, understandable thing than people.

I feel a deep connection to technology, particularly in that I often feel as though it allows me to express myself where I am not able to within what feel to me to be the confines of my physical body.

In covering electronic instruments with fur, I have been exploring how this changes the way I feel using them, how I relate to them, and how I feel they respond back.

My interest is often in ‘Playing with’ rather than playing instruments, and through the discovery of this Dragon creature, and interacting with it in a physical, emotional way, was quite challenging for me.

Performing with the Dragon at Insequence in May 2025, I felt an immense sense of empathy this creature. which found itself suddenly in a different dimension, alone, searching for its family, surrounded by unfamiliar beings. In that moment I could feel its confusion, fear and discomfort, and sought to soothe it as best I could. Sharing with it my love, gratitude and tenderness as best I could.

I’m currently sitting with these feelings, with what it means to help bring a creature like this through into this world. There’s a lot to unfold, but feel deeply that meeting this creature changed me, and feel a profound gratitude to the Dragon.

Real talk, this is not a sensible thing to make. But I’m struck by how little of what humans do is sensible. I struggle with the idea of being a human, of justifying my continued existence, and see no way out of it being to some degree extractive and harmful.

Absurdity is a lens that allows me to look at parts of the world and myself in ways that I do not have the emotional fortitude to do otherwise. Sometimes it really hurts a lot, to be alive.

I hope for my work to not make sense. A combination of sharp teeth, glowing eyes and pom pom ears. Like everything in te world, how you look at it, how you interact with it, your own experiences and perception, even moment to moment, change what it is.

‘Pet Dragon’ is an interface constructed for the ‘Pet’ synthesiser module, in the form of a large furry pink dragon.

Using resistive copper tape under the surface of the fur, the body of the creature becomes a playable control surface.