designer and artist

This hangs in our second bedroom. The collection is called Jungle and I secretly painted a few people as animals for it. Not so secretly, the snake was inspired by my little brother, Andi, who has been my best friend and the biggest, best change in my life since I was four years old!

My dad was a civil engineer. As a kid, I used to wake up at midnight or 2am, and would find him still working. He’d always wear this pen on his pocket, and I always asked if I could use it. When I moved to Australia from Indonesia to study design at 17, he gave me it. It was kind of a symbol of me passing into adulthood.

Whenever I travel, I switch off my mobile phone completely. I carry around my Polaroid camera because it forces me to decide if I really want to take a memory home. You can’t snap 1000 photos on it, like you would with your phone.

This was a gift from my design-studio team. I received it in 2019 when I was dating a lot. It’s a love crystal – perfectly shaped like an egg – and is supposed to bring love. I guess it did because I met my boyfriend Andrew two months later. It’s a reminder of people more than anything.

My friend Milly Dent made this and gave it to me for Christmas. We met at an art show one night – we saw each other from different ends of the room, came up to each other and were like, “I love your work!” Since then, we’ve become best friends in both our creative and personal lives.

I sometimes collect rocks from walks we go on. Some of these are from Figure Eight Pools in Royal National Park. They remind me that nature is beautiful and just full of colour, and how we take it for granted sometimes.

My boyfriend Andrew and I wrote a book about bushwalking called Day Trip Sydney. We’re not hikers or anything, but we do lots of nature walks. We have this running joke that our book will win a ‘Guidey’ – a guidebook award we made up. When we finished writing the book, he made this trophy to commemorate our achievements, and for still sticking together after a year.

I found this in Japan. It was one of those trips that changed my life, and I feel like this shirt is symbolic of that with the snake print, as snakes shed their skin and become something new. Even though I only wear black these days, this shirt is going to stay with me forever.