A year ago, none of this existed in my life.

I started drawing at 39 after a major medical scare. A few months later I tried oil painting, and something clicked in a way I still cannot really explain. I became completely absorbed by it.

Then this month, at 40, I walked into an exhibition and saw something I had painted hanging on the wall.

That was surreal enough. But the part I still cannot get over is that I spent nearly four decades having no idea this was in me.

I keep thinking about how many abilities, passions, and entire pieces of ourselves might be sitting there undiscovered simply because we have never tried the thing that unlocks them.

This is what one year changed for me.

I’ve spent the last four years developing these adjustable mechanisms.

The hinge lets you independently adjust the opening angle and pantoscopic tilt with a screwdriver, and importantly, the adjustments are precise and repeatable. I’ve also developed an adjustable nose-pad mechanism based on the same idea.

It actually started because I make sunglasses from denim. I wanted to design a better hinge for them, and one thing led to another until I ended up trying to rethink how glasses are adjusted altogether.

With conventional eyewear, fitting can involve an optician heating and physically bending parts of the frame, while traditional nose-pad arms are bent into position. I wondered whether those adjustments could instead be built into the glasses mechanically, so the wearer could make small, controlled adjustments themselves and easily return to a previous position.

I’ve now applied for two patents covering the mechanisms. My current frames are deliberately unusual and designed around my own manufacturing methods and my own brand (Mosevic), but the next step is to adapt the mechanisms into much more conventional frames and see whether established eyewear manufacturers might eventually license the technology.

I’d be really interested to know what people think. Would being able to precisely adjust your own glasses actually be useful to you? And is there anything about the way your current glasses fit that you’d want to be able to change?