Throughout our lives we are bombarded with images, those that confront us from the outside and those that occupy the spaces in our minds. Artists are no more or no less visually inundated than others are, it is simply a choice made to focus more predominantly on the images one produces. The tones, colors, textures, and patterns that bombard our daily lives enter our visual vocabulary without intention, and the choice to focus on one source of their fabrication is a way of filtering this influx. My works of mixed media are my reflection and representation of this choice; it is my way of transforming images from the outside world into images of my own making. By combining elements encountered within my life like pages of books, images out of posters, extracts from periodicals, fabrics, old movie stubs and so on, with that of materials designed for the production of art, I reorganise the purpose of each element into an amalgamated story. The result is a piece of work that combines tangible images from the outside with the memories and events of my life. Its like an alchemist searching for the perfect element, except that the search itself is the goal and the outcome is the strange, discordant resonance produced by recycling and combining media.