About

I'm Harley.

I'm a multi-disciplinary artist, animator and programmer. I've also worked as a sysadmin and in technical project management for several years.

I like telling stories, visual or otherwise, and I build tools to help me do that. I write, draw, design, model, animate and program almost everything I do myself, hunched over a desk in the wee small hours outside of my day job.

All through my education, I was repeatedly told I had to focus in on an area in order to progress into a high-performance career space. This is probably true, but if you try and make me I will simply sit still and fizz until I explode. I am allergic to specialisation.

My goal is, and will always be, to make the term 'generalist' next to my name seem reductive.

Meta

This website, cunningly disguised as a portfolio, is also a digital garden of notes, essays and other scribblings: you can read about the stuff I use to make things. You can see what I'm reading and playing, and examine other things about my media collecting in the library. You can even read about this website's construction in its colophon. At the last build of this site, 36,575 words were published from the wiki, of a total of 182,462.

Elsewhere

• I'm most active on Mastodon.
• I publish software and other bits on Itch.io.
• I publish source code and plugins on GitHub.
• I have a semi-active Ko-Fi. I'm also thinking about using the shop there.
• I have a lurker Tumblr account that I'd like to use more.
• I have a lurker Bluesky account. I'll likely only use this for promotional purposes.

Contact

• Social call: if you appreciate what I do, or you're just interested in something I made or think I'd be into something you're doing, I would love to hear from you.
• Invite: I'm always inspired by other creatives and collectives out there and I love sharing knowledge. If you run a thing or are part of a thing you think I should be a part of too, drop me a line.
• Freelance: if you're involved in something big or small and you're interested in picking my brains or even hiring me to do something, don't hesitate to reach out.

If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me using my first name at the domain of this website or send me a message on one of the socials above.