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I have never written a blog entry before... it's strange because it gives a voice to what usually remains silent and frozen in imagery. Like an artist statement, it may help support what is not immediately understood in an artists work, being so subjective and all, but often it is more important to let meaning form through the eyes of an audience. Images are like ink blot tests, they are relative to the perspective of the viewer, who interprets meaning from where they themselves are at in their own minds. It is why beauty is in the eye of the beholder, to see ugliness, violence or wrongdoing in what may in fact be quite the opposite illustrates this point perfectly. This creates a delicate situation for an artist, whose work may be brazenly misunderstood or hijacked of meaning through fear, prejudice or mere aesthetic tastes. Images are my language of choice, the best way for me to communicate an idea, and it pulls and strains to have to describe things in words when asked to do so. But sometimes it may be necessary if only to redirect terrible misinterpretation of the work or the intention behind it, there is often value, truth and beauty where it does not seem apparent.