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What have I been doing for the last few months? Something I’ve wanted to do since before Covid, properly learn Unreal Engine and step into the world of Virtual Production, thanks to @MyWorld Bristol Bath Virtual Production Skills Bootcamp. I’d tried learning Unreal online but it wasn’t the right environment for me. This time was different. IRL learning. Real people and a physical space�And that made all the difference. We learned how to build 3D environments in Unreal, created working scenes, explored Blueprints and stepped practically into the workflows of Virtual Production. We worked in teams to create two micro shorts, using a 2D plate and a 3D environment and I wrote the script for one of shorts called “Bag For Life” and was the VP Producer for the other "GOING NOWHERE" - links in the bio - 1st non game script 💪🏾 New skill unlocked ✨✨ Big love to VP Team 1 such a brilliant group to learn, experiment and play with. This programme reminded me how good learning can feel when it is held with care, warmth and intention. With sessions designed to feel rigorous, welcoming and genuinely supportive. These last few months have been FULL Alongside the bootcamp, I’ve also been on a business accelerator and working on an Innovate UK project. It’s been a season of saying Yes, keeping a running pace and trusting that the stretch would be worth it. And it was!! A Big Big THANK YOU to all the wonderful humans who made the programme possible @universityofbristol @grittytalent @distortioncreative @marsvolume @wemca @myworldcreates And now I get to carry all of this into a very exciting project I’m developing✨✨

While I was phoneless, I decided to spend my time making some new prints to mark the Spring Equinox. I played with collage and flowers. It’s not quite there yet, but here are some of the results so far…

The last two weekends have been full with friends and music🥰🥰my favorite combo❤️‍🔥 Over a week ago, my phone died and I ended up spending the time phone-free🙆🏾‍♀️ Not as disruptive as I thought it would be. I made it work and tried to enjoy my freedom but I’ll admit, I really missed posting & scrolling🫢 That little device is my planner, my memory, my diary, my notebook, my watch, my recorder of life. How did I get so reliant on this chunk of circuits? These past two weekends gave good music, good food and beautiful times with good good friends but I have no photos of those moments Do I need proof they happened? I was there, my heart feels it and they live somewhere else now🧠 So I’m marking the moment with what I do have, access to a mobile library holding a decade of photos of me. So here’s a decade of me ✨✨✨

Happy International Women’s Day✨✨✨ 
Thinking today about all the women who have opened a door invited me in Made space Shared a conversation learning comfort challenge growth care safety And joy For the ways you have nourished me, held me, stretched me Thank you ❤️‍🔥

Been spending my Saturdays on the course Generative Images An Introduction to Touch Designer @arebyte with @_oliviaema 🔥🔥🔥 Made my first live projection and I’m obsessed🫶🏾🫶🏾 Big love to Olivia Ema feel very lucky to learn from a seriously skilled and an extraordinary instructor. Such clear, generous and thoughtfully run sessions. Can’t wait to share what I’m building✨✨

Went to @urbanmba_ first AI Club workshop and honestly, this is my third Urban MBA session now so I think it’s officially a habit🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 In 3 hours we went from hands-on testing tools to breaking down “what even is an AI agent?” and then actually building one. The focus is always on real-world use for your actual work or business not buzzwords. Practical, friendly learning with peers and you leave with real skills, not just theory. If you’ve been AI-curious but overwhelmed, this is a genuinely great way in. I have officially joined the AI Club so if you’re thinking about it, Keep an eye on @urbanmba_ for the next AI Club date and come with me🙌🏾 I forgot to take photos but here’s an image of @canwejustplayhq work in progress logo

Last Wednesday I spent the evening at Beheld an intimate night with JNR Williams + friends at The Muddy Puddle. It was part gig, part storytelling. The music and the stories behind the songs, the words and ideas that shaped them. With guest appearances from one of my favourite musician-writers, @victoriaportmusic and award winning writer @yomi_sode It was an unexpected treat and such a special and up-close way to meet their work. And @jnrwilliams what a voice. Beautiful and full of feeling with lyrics that you feel in your chest. The whole room was lifted. I left knowing more, feeling more. Can’t wait for the next one✨✨

HNY ✨ New Year’s at The Standard — some traditions are worth keeping.

For anyone marking the season and anyone simply surviving the end of the year Sending Big Big 🖤 I don’t celebrate Christmas but I do love a moment of reflection... For the past two years and a half years I’ve been making work with illustration, digital collage and AI exploring Black female presence across digital space. I started this practice as a way to relax because I’d stopped drawing. My creativity had taken other forms but drawing has been a return to source. Big love to @ayotheartist for inspiring me and encouraging me to explore AI and expand my practice. This work is about representation and imagination. I wanted to see more of us in digital space soft powerful surreal ordinary divine playful - ALL OF IT! My process is part illustration, part collage, part experimentation. AI is in the mix (trained on my own artwork via Exactly.ai) the ideas and intention are always mine: the references, the worlds I’m building, the symbolism & the mood. I’m learning as I go and I’m genuinely excited about where this is heading. I’m sharing this piece today as a thank you for the support, the messages, the quiet likes, the conversations, the commissions and the people who’ve asked “can I buy this?” all of it has kept me going. Follow me @ingeniousnewmi is launching soon, with prints and new work. If you’d like first access and a little studio news as I release things… sign up (link in the bio)

At the G20 Social Summit, my core message was something that rarely makes it into governance conversations: Play. Not play as entertainment or escape. Play as civic infrastructure. We often talk about roads, data and finance as the building blocks of development. But in my work, I see something else shaping societies too, the spaces where people can gather, imagine and argue safely. The rituals and cultural practices that hold collectives together. The moments where we are allowed to be human, not just productive. Our ancestors built consensus through ritual, gathering and collective imagination. These weren't soft practices, they were technologies for bringing people together across difference for making belonging visible for rehearsing trust before it was needed. We've inherited institutions that have forgotten this and now we're trying to solve complexity with rigidity. When I talk about play in policy spaces, I'm not importing a foreign concept. I'm talking about reclaiming methodology, approaches that existed long before the frameworks we now treat as neutral. As adults, we've forgotten how to play. And this forgetting is costing us our ability to imagine different futures, solve complex challenges together and resist the futures being imposed on us. Play is how we remember.

Been playing with festive textures and Black girl✨✨✨ If you saw this as a Limited edition print or card, would you buy it? Comment PRINT, CARD or BOTH so I know what to make next.

G20 Social Summit, Johannesburg South Africa’s G20 Presidency was historic!! The first-ever African G20 Presidency, The fourth consecutive Global South Presidency and the second year of the African Union’s full membership. The theme: Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability. For the first time, the Leaders’ Declaration opened with the philosophy of Ubuntu. I was there as part of the Humanity Summit Think Tank, an independent collective of practitioners, researchers and advocates bringing people-centred frameworks into global policy spaces. We contributed to G20 Thematic Area 5: Building Momentum for Achieving the SDGs and Agenda 2063 and submitting papers on measuring hope, civic trust, digital sovereignty, and equity-driven approaches to development. Much of my time was spent listening. To the voices and history in the room. To the cultural performances that opened our sessions. To private conversations about what governance means in contexts I haven’t lived. I understand Ubuntu is not a metaphor. It is a design principle. If I am because you are, then any system that requires your harm for my comfort is already failing. More reflections to come.