This interview is a first of its kind where Lwazi Hadebe sits down with Libby Battson and talks about her journey towards the exhibition TRIPE. She worked on with Elrie Joubert & Pauline Gutter who won the Absa L’Atelier between 2012-2014, have taken two weeks’ worth of rubber and polyurethane waste from a manufacturing plant in Vereeniging and molded it into an immersive and sensory experience. The interview unpacks the challenges she faced as a teenager who wanted to be an artist, to her graduation at University of Pretoria, winning the L'Atelier competition and raising awareness on rubber pollution through artistry and the ABSA gallery.