Turn, turn, turn -

"A Pair of Pliers"
digital collage by Mick Mather

One of the reasons that I take the time to look at so much art, is for that inspirational, light bulb moment when I see the diverging path in the hedgerows just ahead of me. I've been thinking, for quite some time, to revisit a series of tools and other common things begun a few years ago as works-on-paper. I've always had a shredded bin of memory filled with maps, topographic diagrams and hastily scrawled directions with visual scribbles in the centers, margins and along ragged edges. Here, for the first time, I see an unclear beginning and fully intend to follow this path in the coming year. Oh boy!