Disclaimer: Stylised personal account. I created a video that is a narrated, dramatised version of this post, uploaded here.

I look up — shimmering towers climb to the heavens.

The tools of my envisioned peers are not available to me.

In front of me, a humble stall embodies half-baked dreams.

A passerby inadvertently meets my gaze, quickly looks away, and scurries by.

I sit and reflect.

How did it end up this way?

Early iterations of my concept elicited great approval from award-winning auteurs.

Is my customer so elusive?

Is my product so flawed?

I mustn’t let this perturb my Vision.

Lest I return —

To the Muck and the Mire.