haha, you're kind with the impression! thankfully, for times like these, coding-brains (or 3D-brains) lives in a different place than illustration-brains, so it's simple enough to switch gears. :) i could see music being similar for you, actually!

(oh btw speaking of lost stuff from david bowie! i'm sure you've heard of this but on the off chance you haven't: one time i found that he had a list of 100 favorite books, and they're all (i think?) listed here on archive.org - https://archive.org/details/david-bowie-books feels like this would be a fun one to go through. :D )