When I was invited to join the Unwriting Workshops, I remembered a short story I had written years ago and thought of as a failure – barely edited, unpublished and unread. Returning to it, I assumed my desire would be to complete it.

But slowly something shifted. I found myself less inclined to anxiously ask: “How do I finish this?” and more inclined to wonder: “What else is here?”.

The Aloysius installation grew out of that question.

I began experimenting with alternate routes into the text – not to finish the story, but to discover what else might be alive in it. Through fragments, images and objects, I found new ways into the world of Aloysius and began to feel more kindly towards it.

‘Unwriting’ the story in this way helped me to realise that unfinished work doesn't always need solving, rescuing or completing to have worth. It can remain ongoing: a living thing to nurture, revisit and, incomplete as it is, welcome as part of the whole.

Perhaps even becoming a place that other people visit… and (dare I say it) enjoy?