“Kanbas has provided a staggering level of opportunity—not just for me as an artist, but for my family as it has grown during Masquerade’s creation, and for those who build alongside me. But my gratitude isn’t about scale; it’s about the story and substance of how we got here.

They saw the piece and its systems in their crudest, ugliest forms and offered a path change—an offer built on trust, on faith in a longer game.

— Sam Spratt