“everyday you play with the light of the universe” is a poem by Pablo Neruda. I stitched the message, by hand, onto my life drawing. My drawing depicts three muses, drawn during one life-drawing session, which I then transferred to fabric and painted with acrylic paint. I added the stitching using my sewing machine, and some details by hand.

My copy of Iconic is a signed copy as I was lucky enough to attend a talk and a book launch by Dame Zandra at the Fashion and Textile Museum in December 2024. While Dame Zandra was giving the talk, I was sketching her (badly) unbeknownst to her. I revealed my drawing at the end of the talk and she was very excited and pleased, in fact she squeezed my arm and told me to “keep drawing, never stop.” I nearly swooned, and have tried to up my drawing game ever since!