A dreamy cat leads to my awakening.

I’ve never been one for keeping a journal but I realise now that I need to connect the seemingly random events that occur in my life with my ever changing philosophy which also seems random but in a different way. Somewhere in this, I’m quite sure, my artwork is related also. We’ll see in good time I guess.

I’m thinking at this moment that what might be of interest, to me and you maybe, is not the actual events themselves or my final understanding but the dreamlike and perhaps paradoxical link between them. There may be some value in finding these connections, or at least exploring how amazing and complex, or unrelated and ridiculous, or simple and obvious, or contradictory and perplexing they may be.

So here it is. This Blog. My Journal…and how I came to be sitting here writing it.

A month or so ago I received an email from Alexander Hayes,  offering to help me learn to build a web2.0 website. I didn’t even know what web2.0 was, who he was or why he would want help me. I admit, I was sceptical. But at the same time I felt very excited that someone was interested in helping me achieve something that seemed to be beyond my capabilities.

Time to do some research, I thought.

Google… Alexander Hayes…flicked through website, OK …he’s an Educator…lives not far away. That explains a fair bit… clicked on some links as you do…found some things he is into. EduPoV…Eh! Wow! cool. Googled PoV …I’d never heard of any of this before. I kept clicking links and clicking back, reading stuff, looking at pictures moving more and more away from his website but still following threads of stuff he is into …and then I clicked on this video.

Intuitively I now had a good idea of where he was coming from, and why he may be interested in me and what I am doing with the gallery.

So I did reply to his email, met with him and I’m so glad I did, we built the bones of the site and here I am writing about it . In it. With much gratitude to Alex and Pinky.

photo diary 20-05-2009

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