A large part of my job as an artist is to act as a translator for the unconscious mind. One of the advantages of visual thinking as opposed to literal or linear thinking is that it gives us alternative ways to look at things. Perhaps one of my functions as an artist is to bring ideas into view that might not be obvious, sensible or easily understood. This does not mean that everything I do has to be revolutionary or shocking or even new. What it does mean is that I have to be open to the unexpected and cultivate it in my working process and combine things in new, often subtly altered ways London