In 2018 I spent two months alone in a cabin in the mountains of Oaxaca. It was spectacularly beautiful, wild and remote - literally in the clouds. I went there to think, to listen, to make work, and to submerge myself in a simple and different way of living. I saw it as a self-organised residency, and an exploration.

The isolation turned from solitude into loneliness many times. I quickly realised that my preconceptions had perhaps been naively romantic, of course different from the reality. Living alone, at altitude in a vast, at times uncompromising landscape. It was a wonderful, albeit difficult and instructive experience.