There is something innately satisfying about a juicy, singular drop of colour. Maybe not to everyone, but to me. In a multi-sibling household, colour gave me an instant point of differentiation among other like people/objects. So I have a particular fondness for it: colour is about who I am, what I want to be.

In 2023, when I was beginning to feel further away from who I wanted to be, I started with what I already knew how to do: Choose nice colours and write. Every year since, I have chosen a single colour each year to write a poem around, a simple practice combining two annual rituals: word of the year and colour trend forecasting. The former is about shaping ourselves and the latter is about reading where the culture is already going.

In 2025, as I was choosing a colour, I noticed how many colours I dismissed because on their own, on a screen, they were flat. It's an irony that in a world of practically infinite and definitely convenient colour, screens have their limits. So I began experimenting with resin and pigment to bring my colour concepts to life.

Each resin Colourdrop takes disproportionately more time to "render" than choosing a colour digitally. But they also deliver the kind of dimension that is impossible to achieve digitally, colour that responds in real-time to light in the real world.

All colours go through a labour-intensive testing phase involving precise measurements of material, time, and temperature. I use raw pigments and inks sourced locally and from travels. Because of this, many Colourdrops are very limited in quantity and re-release may not be guaranteed.