About

Creative lives are rarely linear. They are ongoing practices of unlearning and re-forming, with creative practitioners sometimes needing to let go of ways of working and understandings that once fit, and sit with what follows. This is not failure. It is the substance of meaningful creative pursuit.

The Unmaking began from inside this process. It is shaped by lived experience rather than theory, and that perspective informs both its tone and its pace. The work moves slowly, without urgency or spectacle, and pays attention to what is usually edited out.

Through long-form conversations, The Unmaking traces this process across disciplines, generations, and geographies. Not as instruction or inspiration, but as testimony. Careful accounts of how people navigate change.

Made in Aotearoa New Zealand, and shaped by place, pace, and slow-burn thinking, The Unmaking offers a considered space for those of us drawn to creative practice as a way of life, not a performance.

Recorded in a small, mobile studio, moved through the landscapes of Aotearoa, each episode is shaped not only by the guest, but by the place in which we meet. Shifting light, passing weather, and mountains, lakes, beaches, forests and rivers providing visual context. It is deliberately intimate: no performative cameras, no studio lights, just voices, stillness, and the environment breathing around us.

The Unmaking is not about success.
It is about the necessary, unfinished work of becoming.