Freedom

Art, for me, is freedom. Freedom from opinion, from judgement, from that elusive ‘right’ that so often hovers just out of sight. It’s the point where I feel most myself, most honest, most in touch with my instinct.

In everyday life, I can be unsure, under-confident, comparing myself to others and finding myself lacking. Projecting what I think others want to see in me, hiding what I am. Looking outside of myself and not within.

But when I make, I make for an audience of one, for the enjoyment and judgement of one. I make only what I want to see. The decisions come easily, instinctively; they are unclouded by external voices. The purest form of poetry in my work is when it comes from a place of not thinking, when it comes from my gut.
Everything 'other' falls away, it’s just me, and I am satisfied.