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<\/a>An appreciative awareness of the\u00a0visual arts has been a feature of my existence\u00a0since childhood but it was not until my thirties that I found the way to incorporate this interest into my working life which, until this time, had been keenly focussed upon matters of a far more technical nature.<\/p>\n
A couple of\u00a0years after emigrating to\u00a0Melbourne, Australia, and much more by chance than intention, I found work\u00a0on the ground floor level of the props and special effects industry.\u00a0This\u00a0lead\u00a0me to\u00a0establishing a\u00a0business, SmartRRs, (Rigs, Robotics and Creative Mechanisms for the Visual Media) and\u00a0henceforth to so much\u00a0previously frustrated creative energy being given life in the form of animated humanoids, creatures and other stage effects.<\/p>\n
Although in this period, I worked in very close conjunction and in support of a great many other artists, I regrettably rarely found the time or inclination to develop my own artistic ideas beyond the\u00a0more technical aspects of my profession.<\/p>\n
Eventually becoming\u00a0disillusioned by\u00a0finding the creative aspects of such work being suffocated\u00a0by the impositions of commercialism, I came to redirect\u00a0my\u00a0practical skills to be employed\u00a0in support of overseas humanitarian aid. As much as\u00a0this led to some wonderful experiences and the\u00a0essence of the work was personally very satisfying, I found myself unable to adapt to\u00a0an existence\u00a0within the highly politicised and self serving bureaucracies that dominate this large scale international industry.<\/p>\n
By 2012, being very unsure of where to now direct my energies and\u00a0while in a somewhat sombre mindset quite devoid of any creative enthusiasm or any interest in pursuing\u00a0such ideas, I quite suddenly found myself in the power of some\u00a0irrepressible external force\u00a0that led me to firstly\u00a0take more attentive note of my\u00a0feelings of doubt combined\u00a0with potential and, secondly, to turn\u00a0these\u00a0into\u00a0visual forms\u00a0which soon became a series of paper models.<\/p>\n
No sooner had I watched these models being made by my own hands\u00a0than\u00a0it became apparent that\u00a0I was also going to have to start making them on a much larger scale.<\/p>\n
Hence the Decision series\u00a0came into a physical existence….<\/p>\n
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