though at the moment at least, time consuming. If you could pick any artist to work with for a day, who would it be?Though there are many greatest artists that have intrigued me from the past and present, were I given the privilege in life tomorrow to work with great artists, they would have to be either filmmakers, games designers or fashion designers, or advertising professionals. I am captivated with the creative outputs in these areas so much I’d happily up-sticks, and travel to any part of the world to explore, learn, and create the work that will either improve lives or define a time for people to look back on with a smile and no small amount of excitement. Is talent something you are born with or can it be taught?Again, one of those words, used in retrospect, throughout the discourse of creative endeavors, another definition or label I don’t hold much store by, I think you can teach someone to emulate all the things we would look to define as a talent certainly, but, can you make someone a true artist? The capacity to generate those happy accidents, those moments of awe when a work before you takes a life of it’s own? When a work becomes more than the some of it’s parts and begins to become something more? I’m not sure, but I would rather think yes, so as not to discourage anyone who might not try for fear of not

a passion for. It very much become this, now I’m a lot clearer where I want to go and what I want to do. I can only think were I to have the outlet to spend all my time working creatively, rather than just the precious moments I can squeaze in, the sky is the limit.

What tells a story in a photo?I’m inclined to believe the photos we have seen before. I feel they inform our view of images we see in the future; how you read images, and most importantly for me, how you conceive them. I know with my ‘Meastrology’ Project, through play and experimentation in no small part, it is the images that I have seen in the past, and had an infinity with, that would have me develop a work in a particular direction. Most importantly, are those that have me rest at a certain point and feel a readiness to move on to a new piece. I regularly revisit previous works, if sometimes only to bring them up in Photoshop to see if they are actually any bigger than my thumbnail by the time various apps are done changing the size and resolution of them. This area of control I am beginning to regain now I am getting to work with bigger crisper images courtesy of my collaborators in Oz and the US through Photoshop. This has not been without problems, of processing power, software and interface. I am finding this challenging certainly, but up-scaling my work is giving me great rewards and new potential,

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