Let’s Worm

Let’s Worm began with a simple exchange: one person makes a prompt through writing or drawing, and the other responds. Sometimes the story leads; sometimes the image does. The constraint keeps the work quick, strange, and open enough to surprise both collaborators.

Writer Dan Murphy and I have been building the collection since 2017. Most entries pair flash fiction or very short fiction with sketches and color studies, while longer stories and more involved bodies of artwork occasionally stretch the format.

The project creates room to move between illustration, painting, character work, collage, and sequential images without forcing everything into a single house style. The continuity comes from the exchange itself: image and text operate as companion pieces rather than one simply decorating the other.

I designed and built the current SvelteKit and Sanity site to turn a long-running archive into a browsable editorial system. Work can be explored by form—including stories, retellings, sets, and musings—while individual entries give the writing and artwork enough space to set their own pace.

I created the illustrations and visual responses, helped shape the ongoing editorial collaboration, and designed and engineered the current platform. That work spans creative direction, content modeling, interface design, frontend development, and the practical migration of a growing archive into a system that can keep evolving.