Sonder House emerged from an increasing frustration with the expectation that artists maintain a singular visual identity, medium, or voice. After years of attempting to consolidate my practice into something fixed and recognisable, I instead began considering what would happen if authorship itself became fragmented and distributed.

The project centres around The Moon Society, a constellation of vessels that each embody distinct artistic languages, aesthetics, and modes of perception. These entities originated from characters I first created at eighteen years old, initially as part of a short lived world building project before remaining dormant for years. Revisiting them later became a way of externalising different creative impulses that I had previously tried to suppress or unify.

Through this framework, I repositioned myself not as a singular author but as The Ghost Architect; an observer, translator, and witness to the evolving world of the Wandering Orb, where Sonder House resides. The work became less about maintaining a coherent artistic persona and more about allowing multiple forms of image making to coexist simultaneously.

This transition coincided with me leaving my studio and beginning to work from my bedroom, a shift that initially felt restrictive and claustrophobic. Building the mythology of Sonder House transformed that limitation into expansion; the physical space became secondary to the internal world I started constructing through the work.

Drawing from longstanding influences including dark fantasy, symbolic storytelling, character construction, and speculative world building, Sonder House operates both as a conceptual framework and a means of reclaiming creative freedom. By dispersing authorship across multiple vessels, the work explores contemporary pressures surrounding identity, visibility, and artistic self construction while embracing multiplicity as a generative force rather than a contradiction.