Being half Swiss, I grew up exploring castles, cathedrals, dungeons and catacombs and admiring the folk art that decorated buildings, ceramics and books.
I adored the smell of damp stone, the sound of echoing footsteps, the dark history and myth that surrounded the fairy tale like places I was privileged to explore.

As I child my first drawings were of knights, damsels and mythical creatures.
My favourite books were set on misty moors, in crumbling abbeys and mythical worlds.

I recently heard someone compare the increasingly fragmented state of the Western world to the Dark Ages.

A time of fragmentation, misinformation, the rejection of science in favour of ideology, the erosion of reason, plagues/ pandemics and climate crisis.

This re-awakened my childhood obsession and lead me to examine the Middle Ages through a contemporary lense.