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I make art. Where does inspiration come from? Well, it’s complicated. Sometimes it comes from when my wife asks me to do the dishes and, instead of doing them, I go and make art. Sometimes it comes from observing nature doing things backwards — like reverse caterpillars, when butterflies turn into caterpillars, which is fascinating if you think about it for too long.
I am also inspired by colours. Not just any colours — the colour brown, which I feel is vastly underrepresented in the world, mostly because people keep painting things green by mistake. Hair flicks are another muse. A well-timed hair flick can speak volumes, though I am still working out exactly what it says. The smell of freshly cut grass also moves me. And occasionally, random human phenomena, like when someone sneezes just as you walk past, or the existential panic that occurs when you realise your socks don’t match.
I combine all these elements — the smells, the hair, the backward butterflies, the ignored browns — to make things that are very much art, even if some people might confuse it for just a pile of thoughts or a slightly confused pile of objects. But that is the beauty of it.