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No. 10) In your opinion, what could be a simple
solution to improve creativity in the public
school system?

For every lesson of skill and craft taught there
should be a class of free open honest expression,

personal opinion and discussion whatever the
medium, particularly and increasingly for senior
students. They should be encouraged to feel and
express that connection on an emotional level

rather than just the images they see and words
that they read.

No 11) What are you hoping to convey to the
onlooker through your art?

Though my duty is surely to be open to these influences of spirit and divinity

and to be honest in their expression them through my work, I believe the circle
is not complete until that connection is communicated to the viewer.
Therefore, the audience also plays a vital role, not merely as dormant

observers of the painting being viewed, but as an active participant in
completing the spiritual experience.

Before and during the process the viewer or onlooker is not a consideration for

me, I do not produce my work for anyone, nor
even for me, however, whenever a work is completed I then become a witness
to it, as revelation, an observer to it as an entity in itself, if the work was
created with honest expression and awareness then all I can wish for is that I

and the onlooker(s) can somehow connect with that spirit again, somehow
connect to that divinity on some level or at least open a door to seeing the
whole rather than just the part.