Cody Weightman

And at the time, I obviously couldn't do that, being in and out of surgeries and stuff.

So I guess he's a bit of an alter ego.

I thought the campaign was all about expressing your health.

And I thought he would be a nice little reference point to

to paint and put in that campaign.

So got him having a, holding a surfboard and some plans and stuff and just engaging in things that I like.

And yeah, it's pretty cool.

I've been sent a few photos now of the mural over in London and it's, it's massive.

It's like 773 square meters big, I think.

So it takes up a big portion of the building and yeah, it's one of those things that it was really good to have stuff like that during a period where I had a,

probably a tougher run with footy and I could engage in other art things and things that could keep me busy.

Oh, it's really been great.

I, um, I think like when I reflect on footy as a kid, I was, I was a little footy nuffy.

I loved Collingwood and I was just obsessed with footy.

And then as you get older and you play it more, it sort of,

you end up realising you have to get away from it a little bit and it absorbs you too much as a player for me anyway and then I found art again which I've always done as a kid but never really thought it would be anything serious or something I'd do in the future and I've got this same passion that I had for footy when I was about 10 and now I've got that for art where I look forward to coming home from training and doing some painting or some drawing or playing with resin or just being creative and getting those creative flows going and

Yeah, I definitely know that it's something in the creative world that I want to do after footy now because that works for me following that passion for footy and hopefully I can find my way into a creative industry in a number of years when footy's all finished.

But it's been such, especially this year, I think I would have really struggled without art over the past,

a year or two as not having a release would have been really tricky.

So I was very lucky to have it.