"I remember thinking to myself, what can I master in my lifetime... What kind of hard work and patience would it take so that when I draw a line it is recognisably mine?"

I love this little bit of inspiration from Shantell Martin. It really resonates.

"Just give me a pen and I'll make something."

One of my favourite photographs was taken when I was nine years old. I'm standing with my siblings in our apartment in Thamesmead estate, a public-housing complex in Southeast London. I have a little Afro and brown skin, and I'm wearing Michael Jackson-style shorts. Beside me are my very blond and blue-eyed brother and four sisters.