About Myth and Mastery

We’ve all worked with them. Maybe we’ve been them. The ones who stay after the lights go out and who hold things together without needing to be seen. These are their stories, and maybe yours too.

This is the emotional architecture behind Myth and Mastery. The people, spaces and buildings; the presences and archetypes who hold things together, quietly, consistently, and often without being seen. 

They are not just content. They are characters. They are real. They are you.

This is a space for them to be recognised, not for what they produce, but for what they preserve. Here are some of the character-types featured in this storytelling work.

Care and Maintenance:

The Housekeeper

The one who clears the dust, restores the room, and prepares the space. Not just for others, but for what the space might become. He sees what’s left behind. He tender with the aftermath. He is not your cleaner. He is a keeper of thresholds.

The Reluctant Caretaker

She didn’t apply for this job. She just… noticed too much to walk away. Tasked with tending spaces she didn’t build, she lives in the liminal, maintaining without authority, holding without being held. She carries tools no one asks for, but everyone relies on.

The Property Manager

She balances budgets and boilers. Knows the cost of every repair and the value of every sigh. She mediates between the floor plan and the people, between expectation and endurance. Her desk is a map. Her voice, a form of care.

Structure and Systems:

The Architect

The one who sketches the unseen. She dreams in lines, thresholds, and light. Knows that a doorway is more than an entrance - it is a choice. Her drawings are memory maps. Her angles are invitations. She builds meanings as much as walls.

The Builder

The one who carries weight in his hands. He lays brick after brick, knowing each one matters. Feels the cost of stone, the burden of concrete. Without him, vision stays on paper. Every strike of his hammer is an act of faith. Every wall is a promise kept.

The Engineer

The one who speaks the language of systems. Pipes, wires, ducts - his alphabet of flow. He knows the building’s pulse better than its people. Keeps rhythm in silence, balance in pressure. If he is unseen, it means he is doing his job. He is the hum beneath the walls.

The Electrician

The one who traces the unseen currents. Knows where energy surges and where it flickers. Listens to the hum beneath the surface and restores what’s shorted, blown, or barely hanging on. Every fix is an act of intimacy.

Guardians and Sustainers:

The Security Guard

The watcher at the edge. Silent witness to every late-night corridor and overlooked door. He knows who belongs, even when they don’t have a badge. He guards more than entrances. He guards stories.

The Chef

She makes something out of what’s left in the fridge. Feeds without asking who’s hungry. Knows that nourishment is ritual, not reaction. She stirs myth into the ordinary. She seasons with memory.

These are the workers and witnesses of Myth and Mastery. Not heroes. Not helpers. Just people who see what others miss, and make space for what the world forgets.

The books emerging from Myth and Mastery are not manuals they are structures, quiet frameworks that help us dwell with what we notice, carry, and endure. They delve into the schema of work, space, systems, and self, particularly for those who’ve spent their lives just outside the centre of things. In the Myth and Mastery Series, you’ll discover: 

1. Building Stories (series) 

Buildings as memory. Infrastructure as metaphor. Stories as shelter. 

This collection features lyrical essays and imagined transcripts that explore various spaces, such as the stairwell, the office, the lift, and the meeting room, revealing the emotional storytelling they hold. These narratives honour the overlooked and reframe maintenance, observation, and infrastructure as deeply human. 

Coming soon: 

The Lift 

The Unseen Cleaner 

The Quiet Room 

2. The Housekeeper's Companion: A Living Almanac (series) 

Notes from a reluctant housekeeper. Part guidebook, part memoir, part myth. 

This book follows the archetype of the Housekeeper, the one who fixes, holds, and notices. It's a compelling read for anyone who tends to spaces (physical or emotional) they didn’t build but are tasked with maintaining. 

Chapters include: 

The Ethics of Cleaning Up After Power 

How to Read a Rota Like a Sacred Text 

What to Do When the System Ignores You 

3. Infrastructure of the Soul: Essays on Place, Power, and Presence 

Stillness without collapse. Belonging without access. (series) 

A series of reflective essays that explore the anatomy of modern life. Topics range from access control to ceiling tiles, fire alarms to floor plans, all viewed through a lens of emotional fluency, social critique, and human presence. 

Essay previews: 

Access Control and Other Forms of Belonging 

Fire Strategy for the Soul 

What the Lock Knows 

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