Essays, interviews, & non-fiction
Essays, interviews, & non-fiction
a love letter to Wylie’s Baths
Eva Telemachou writes a love letter to her favourite ocean pool.
SEEN
Megan Wray creates a list of playful activities to inspire change, empower the self, and celebrate community.
good bye, bad bye
Lila Vidler muses on the joy and pain of saying goodbye, and how this changes as adulthood arrives.
What Counts and What Gets Counted: On nutrition labels, bioactives, and learning to eat again
Paul H. Mason unpacks unlearning nutrition label myths, discovering bioactives, and learning how to eat again.
What’s Your Story? In Conversation with Holly Reynolds
In What’s Your Story?, Holly Reynolds reflects on the power of meaningful conversation and the simple questions that can unlock deeper connection. Through the story behind her conversation card game, she explores why being seen, heard and understood remains more important than ever in an increasingly disconnected world.
Ardi: A meditation on land, legacy, and belonging
Leadlight sat down with Jonathan Chalouhi, director of the short film أرضي (Ardi) that recently premiered at Miya Miya Film Club’s first birthday event in November, 2025. Ardi tells a story of land, home, and the agricultural identity of the Lebanese people.
In dialogue with trent newman: on language, power and identity
In conversation with Trent Newman discussing language, power, and identity through the lens of decades of experience, relationships, and learnings.
Perspective was the original sin of western painting
In Renaissance art, the ambiguity of death is represented as transcendent of linear sight. Holbein, Claesz, and Piola harness distortion to represent the abstract, bridging our observable and rational reality in two-dimensions.
The Vulnerability Projekt
An art installation built by the vulnerability of strangers has created connection, community, and healing. In conversation with Lili Spratt.
My culture in a shoebox
An exploration of what it means to reclaim one’s cultural identity amidst obstacles of disconnection. Eva reflects on the experience of piecing together her father’s family archives and their migration to Australia.
How to erase yourself
A musing on memory and the catharsis and loss that often accompany each other when revisiting one’s archives and past self.