I’m often inspired by other artists work. Not that I wish to copy them but they often leave “untold” stories like: what’s behind the next turn on that path or just beyond that boulder/mountain/hill/door/wall/horizon or just below that surface (you get the picture).

I also find that museum visits trip on a few mental switches but if I’m in company with others I don’t take notes…only mental ones that often go un-hatched. A museum artist’s sculpted model of a Egyptian palace perhaps as seen from different angles as you revolve around the model. Perhaps a beautiful celestial image while at a planetarium of primordial gases floating in space in beautiful translucent colors.

But what really gets me going sometimes is viewing DVD films at home. Those great in-between scenes in great movies that go almost unnoticed and you can pause the scene and take it all in and wonder if you can do it justice or make it better. Maybe even adding something unique to it. See the attached grabs of some scenes I thought inspired me at the time from the movies: “The Matrix” and “Frankenstein” (the village in particular).

As a small child I remember that as most small children do while playing we improvise common home objects to sit in as props that represent other objects like toasters became buildings, parts of vacuum cleaners became spaceships, and some dominos became fortifications and so on. But in our young minds they were rich with the detail needed to fulfill the fantasy. Imagining ourselves as if we were two inches tall and everything else in that tiny world was made to fit the fantasy. I believe that as we grow up we tend to lose that flight of fancy imagination that is rich in young children. If I could only re-tap that well!