BEHIND THE ART

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Over the last 30 years, I have had a lot of fun doing a wide variety of art.  About a year ago I realised that, if I was to continue doing art, I needed to pause.

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In short: I needed to look back over the last thirty years of work and organise it, catalogue it into the five major areas in which I have worked, take photographs of it all, and then give it all away to family and friends.

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Of course I kept a few pieces that my wife or I just could not part with, as they had too much sentimental value.  The rest, however, we gave away.

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Why?  Well, we gave it away not just to clear space for me to do new things, but also because art is meant to be enjoyed -- not sitting on a shelf or in an art filing cabinet collecting dust.

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The process has been incredibly therapeutic, especially when you see the joy it brings people -- and it is rather wild, because you just cannot predict who is going to like what, and just when you think, "Oh, i am going to throw that away, nobody wants it!," someone goes, "What are you doing, I love that piece!" 

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The final step, of course, was to create an online retrospective.  Both so others can enjoy the work I have done and also, when I am sad bout missing a piece of art, I can see it here and be happy again.