I wanted to be an astronaut. Now I'm an artist. I have been educated by the Canadian education system. If you're interested, the details are here. I wanted to be an astronaut because I was interested in "Space". "Space" was pure science. "Space" was a place to wrap yourself in a cocoon and float amid wonders.
Well, it turns out that there are lots of things you can do that have those characteristics. The dream of freedom turned into being a hippie and living in the woods. I came to love the weather and the simple experience of experiencing. That was a very beautiful time. I was a photographer then. I photographed sunlight on clouds and rain, and moonlight on rivers and windowpanes. The light came from far away and was changed by the untouchable to go zing through my lens and smack onto my film. I liked that. I liked the skill too. It was a knowledge and understanding based skill, with the physical part handled by beautiful artifacts. I've always been weak at performance skills, like music. Computers were the thing though. I got one almost as soon as they were available, and long before they were useful in the way they are now. I learned to write programs. When you write your own programs, any computer, no matter how tiny, is an infinite universe of possibilities. This is the old floating in a cocoon theme returning with a vengeance, only now the universe is inside the cocoon, and I'm outside.
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