An aesthete (noun) refers to those with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature.
And syn- (prefix) means things that are like one another.
You belong here.
I believe commitment to beauty in our lives will save us from self-destruction:
as the Ancient Greek word for beauty was "kalon" — related to call — beauty compels us to heed unspoken words to dive deeper, explore, stay a while in something profound and unexplainable, and eventually work to preserve it. I endeavour to flesh out this concept forever, through words and visual media.
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⭑ Thus, my portfolio is diverse, explorative, and whimsical as represents my own life's journey ⭑
I have often zoomed out and taken a birds' eye view of the world, and am increasingly trying to pivot my creative work to encompass...everything. All of it. The really Big Picture stuff.
So, my fellow big thinkers / dreamers / journeyers:
Come explore. Get beautifully lost and messy with me.
Find your way in:
Braided nonfiction
Book Serialisation
A meta-living memoir that keeps asking questions — woven through with literature, psychology, art, and the other works that crack humanity's hardening heart.
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The world, witnessed
Photojournalism
Dispatches from markets, deserts, festivals, and hidden corners — humanity in its most vivid and unguarded moments.
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Visual art & film
The Gallery
Travel, portraiture, love, and the electric aliveness of people gathered together — collective effervescence, made visible.
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Essays by email
Collecting Shards
Sporadic letters that hold divinity up to the light — finding one's way back to the path of their Personal Legend through curiosity and discovery of beauty.
subscribe & read →"I'm the storyteller, existential artefact collector, and archivist of authenticity behind Synaesthete Media — a deep listener and quiet witness to humanity's hidden beauty."
A writer and renaissance woman whose life represents a lifelong quest around three questions (as posed by Iain McGilchrist): what is good, what is beautiful, and what is true.
For over ten years, she documented the wildness of the world and festival culture, places of communal emotion, and the sacredness borne of people gathered in participation of something bigger than themselves.
Now, in a world coming apart at the seams, she turns her lens to matters of morality, beauty and truth — not as a luxury, but a lifeline — these things that compel us to linger, to stay, to preserve what matters most when it seems all is lost. She is also writing a book about all of this.