2014  Myriad Thoughts

My hands cannot keep up with my mind.  Ideas flow thick and fast, triggered by the most ordinary things; a crack in the footpath or a shadow on a wall will inspire a thousand imagined drawings.  No matter how hard I work I am always trying to catch up.  Like many artists I am always “working”, constantly collecting – words, images, objects, thoughts – storing them away in boxes, jars, folders, online and in my mind.  I imagine a wall of tiny drawers, such as you would find in an old apothecary, or a wunderkammer, a cabinet filled with curiosities.  Treasures put away for safekeeping, for the moment when I might open the drawer and discover the very thing that might spark a whole new body of work. 

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