We do not inherit legacy as a finished story. We inherit it as a question: What will you do with what’s been left to you? For much of my career, I believed that legacy was something static—a body of work, a series of accomplishments, perhaps even a name etched into the annals of an institution or a gallery wall. But as time passed, I realised that legacy isn’t built in grand gestures or singular achievements. It lives quietly, in the margins, carried by people, woven into the stories we don’t always tell. This realisation became particularly vivid as I reflected on my journey with Amir and Danial Fuad—two individuals who started as my assistants but evolved into formidable voices in Malaysia’s art scene. Amir, now a writer and curator whose work interrogates art’s role within cultural and social dialogues, and Danial Fuad, a photographer and writer whose lens...