I have been mainly taking photographs of bark this year
Ancient trees: I want to paint them
Trying to capture
The exo-spectrum of other-worldly colours
Beyond any I can name.
I want to draw the patterns
Crazed scribblings of a genius
Locked away for centuries
In a tower of their mind
Slowly interpreting messages from outer space-time
Instructions for inter-conscious travel
And the creation of new life forms.
In my pictures I want to convey
How if you lean up close
You can see the topography of other worlds
Or the nerve-web of the genius-lunatic's mind
But I just don't have the skill.