suffering from both escapist tendencies and diabetes it is probably not strange at all that from an early age i was fixated on the extraordinary tales of jules verne and his prolific stories of journey and wonder. by the time i read them, they were more fiction than the science fiction of before but they still contained a quality that could transport a boy like me into a fantastic world beyond. born from curiosity in a time where these types of voyages were hardly possible, these novels were often illustrated with engravings to explain mr verne’s whimsies and the characters’ adventurous predicaments - inventing new machines, animals and entire worlds in an alternative reality that seemed so far fetched yet nearly possible was his gift. the imagery of otherness from those books remain and i look to them in inspiration at times when impossibilities threaten to become reality…
