MICA CONTEMPORARY ARTIST over 25 years ago I embarked on a journey of discovery, self-discovery, learning and unlearning which led me to Aotearoa in 1984. after university, theatre work and travelling I lived as a craft artist and slowly developed my vision and style of work, which I now represent in art-photography, visual montage, sculpture, painting and… since 2000 I contributed to numerous solo and group exhibitions. one strong underlying thread in my work is exploring the connection between matter, consciousness and spirituality –the art of seeing  - infinite forms, shapes and colour suggest to me all sorts of matters, emotions, tactile  encounters intellectual speculations and narrative concepts. if I find an element of surprise in my work, I know I have started something worthwhile. animated viewing with my photographic work I try to shift the attention away from the subject matter and redirect the focus towards an awareness of the process of perception, as well as the intellectual and emotional pleasure of seeing. in focussing and framing images in a very specific way, I create photographs that are suggestive rather than descriptive, alluding to places rather than describing them explicitly. I hope to engage the viewer in an almost sublime way, testing memory and habitual responses. never entirely abstract pictures stimulate a profound self consciousness of the act of looking and the expectations we have, how an image effect us which way. in the 2006 takaka exhibition I named only one image, in a way the most abstract of this exhibition. the title fountain of peace locked itself firmly in my mind looking at the image. this may say more about me, my mind, my wishful thinking – that a fountain of peace will flood the earth and consciousness of humanity – than it does about the image itself. our mind can create habits of looking and standardize our response and interpretation. the other images are to me above all animated stimulation of fantasy. I wish to encourage the viewer to make up their own titles and animated stories to these images. every human mind has a lot of creative potential which is often buried in the daily grind. I hope these images can stimulate you as a viewer as they stimulate me. our individual vision of the world is always a subjective one.