Mark Miller turns the tables and interviews Nic about his own creative practice. They talk about sketching, quilting and bird photography, why making things helps quiet Nic’s mind, and why the process matters more to him than the finished work. The conversation also touches on martial arts, self-criticism, vulnerability, and wanting to be seen as more than the disabled accessibility guy.
Soren Hamby, poet and disability rights advocate, talks poetry as necessity and expression, the craft of specificity and editing, and living with vision loss and late-diagnosed neurodivergence. A candid look at writing as self-reflection, advocacy, and a way to make disability's realities understood.
Róisín Curé talks about finally calling herself a comics creator after years of resisting labels, and about her new monthly comic Wild Atlantic Ink. The conversation moves through drawing from life versus photos, what years of sketching built in her hands, and the calm that sketching brings to a mind that has long carried melancholy. It ends up somewhere unexpected, with foraged food and homemade bread.
Planetary scientist Sondy Springmann turns worn-out clothes into quilts, combining secondhand materials, ninety-year-old sewing machines, and modern technology in unexpected ways. Along the way, we explore disability, creativity, community, and the problem-solving mindset that comes from living in a world that wasn’t designed for you.
Mia Seljubac is a games lawyer who is building I Am the Cat, a cozy narrative game with fully hand-painted watercolor animation. Her visual style draws from illustrated children's books, and she animates every frame by hand on a light box. She talks about living with ADHD and a spinal injury and why she identifies as a maker who is disabled.
The Work Between is an interview podcast with disabled artists and creators. We will be discussing their creative processes and explore the intersection of creativity and disability, and asking how that intersection shapes identity.
