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Wherever I go I see things in the natural environment that move me Whenever I read the bible it moves me very deeply too and images pop
deeply especially the starkness of some of the Australian landscape. I into my mind. I want to explore the imagery and powerful messages
want to drink the image in, keep it in my mind. I feel like the blind man in the words e.g. “living waters”, “rivers clap their hands”, “bread of
whom Jesus healed. At first he saw people like trees walking. What life”. What would these ideas look like in an art work? I want to clothe
an unusual thing to see. Who would believe it if they hadn’t seen it? the invisible world with the flesh of art so that others can see what I
Jesus told him to look again and then he saw people as people. We see. I want my art to make a positive difference to people’s lives and
are sometimes too busy or quite happy with things as they are to ‘look to the world too, so I create, using visual parables, word and image
again’ and miss out on some of the joy of discovery and exploration. puns, social, political and prophetic artistic statements.
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