By Saskia Solomon, 22, University of Edinburgh (published without alterations to text)
When I was in my early teens I fell down an internet rabbit hole. At the time, I enjoyed drawing to audiobooks and lectures on youtube, absorbing big words and appropriating ideas even if I didn’t entirely understand them.
Saskia Solomon. Photo: Saskia Solomon
I listened to prominent academics, historians and artists. The likes of Lucy Worsley, Stephen Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Germaine Greer and Christopher Hitchens, tickled my ears and became my teachers of choice as I sketched on. I waded through psychobabble, took note of debating techniques, patterns…
