GILES CARTWRIGHT

I spent years as a professional conjuror. What that craft actually teaches — not the tricks but the discipline — is how perception works, how attention can be led, and how readily people see what they expect to see rather than what is actually there. I have spent a long time since applying that understanding to a different territory.

I am trained in counselling and coaching. I have studied contemplative practice seriously. I am not offering you therapy, and I am not offering you coaching. I am offering you a particular quality of attention — and what that attention produces: a piece of writing that names what you could not quite name, and gives you somewhere to move.

Someone brings me a question. I sit with it. I read it, turn it, examine what is said and what isn't, notice where the language goes careful and where it goes vague. Then I write.

That is the work.