27/11/2025
I can’t quite put into words how much creating this art installation with the guys from Wild wood meant to me. The truth is, I’ve never really known what I wanted to do with my life. I’ve tried a lot of things, but nothing ever stuck. The moment things became even remotely challenging, I’d lose interest or walk away from the job or the business I’d created.
But Wild wood has been different—right from the start. It’s the first thing I’ve ever felt this deeply passionate about. Maybe it’s because it’s something I desperately needed about four years ago, when everything in my life was falling apart. When I felt lost, alone, and without any sense of direction or purpose, a place like Wildwood would have been exactly what I needed to stumble across in the middle of my own personal storm.
And strangely, it was in that storm that something new was born. The person I was back then could never have created this; I was too caught in self-destruction, too weighed down by self-loathing, and far from any kind of clarity. Looking back, I honestly believe that losing almost everything—and almost everyone—was what allowed me to become the man who could build this. A man able to hold space without judgement, without an agenda. Just a raw, unfiltered version of someone who was broken, but who put himself back together.
And that moment on the hill, surrounded by an entire community coming together to honour Men’s Mental Health Month—that’s a moment I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.
