stephmog

..it's not deliberate! It's just that when I finish a thing I tend to give it away before I have to look at it for too long. I may at some point get used to the fact I have this page here, and remember to get a photo or a scan each time I have produced a thing.

I paint, write, take photographs and draw because I feel the urge to knit my inner visions into the real world; or the other way around - I'm not too sure. Basically though, playing with words and rhythms, colours and shapes is what keeps me feeling real and alive. I can't just drift through life from television show to workplace boredom to banal conversation. The pitch and toss of experience is too painful or magical, too beautiful or horrible (and sometimes both at once) to endure it all without trying to express it. This is for me. All of it is personal, and I gave birth to all of it. And just like giving birth, even if it's gorgeous and t