A spark of an idea…

Sometimes an idea arrives fully formed, complete, whole and emerges exactly as it was imagined.

More often than not, however, it begins as a spark.

A spark of light.

A spark of curiosity.

A small, seemingly insignificant flicker. Follow the rabbit and it will lead you to places that Wonderland could only imagine.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to paint the sound of a cockatoo, for instance? Or the smell of sugar cane burning? What kind of marks would you make? What colour would it be?

Sometimes a spark leads to a whole body of work.

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Sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes it just fizzles out.

Sometimes I’m not fast enough to catch it in the moment and it moves on to someone else.

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But the sparks that catch?

Well, that’s where the magic happens.