While I was at MISSA I would jot down things that I overheard or things that were in my head. And I began writing them onto pages of old books, and doing some drawings or smudges to accompany the words.
During a hard time in my life a friend of mine, who I didn't know very well at the time, encountered me having a really terrible day. He said to me "You're just in the down part of the wave" which has stuck with me ever since.