I am aware, as I look back over the years of my art making, that I have been a constant experimenter. In a way, my curiosity to discover has led to an empirical and ontological approach. This makes me think of an amusing story. It may be apocryphal, but nevertheless, it fits well with what I want to say about mediums and experiments. I have almost given up reading daily newspapers. However, I think this story probably comes from reading The Age. The Melbourne newspaper, The Age, was my most regular morning fix with coffee. I read that apparently early American astronauts were having difficulty using ballpoint pens at zero gravity. The Russians, were quick when confronted with the same problem. They designed the Russian Space Pen. It worked at zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface and at extreme temperatures. What they had in fact done was come up with a well-designed pencil! This made me wonder about how I would go about making a watercolour at zero gravity. It's not likely that this would ever happen. However, it shows my thinking involves experimental creativeness that is poetic. The poetry of art making can advocate powerful emotions in creating unique aesthetic experiments with added spiritual resonance. 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination,' said Albert Einstein. The excitement of achieving results from this experimental creativeness can be most personally satisfying. Alberto Giacometti thought that: 'The object of art is not to reproduce reality but create a reality of the same intensity'. Experimenting with various mediums is the fun part in the 'play' of making art. With imagination and on any surface, one can arrive at surprising and exciting results using a variety of colours and forms. The mystery and love of discovery is not always about certainty. Freedom is the soul of art. Art is the flow of potential using the human mind and hand. The imagination is an intermediary between emotion and intellect. It also provides the basis of a social life.
