the way things are

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paul Klee spoke of 'taking a line for a walk' when drawing. In my case it is the drawings that have led whilst I followed to see where they were going; and so one drawing suggested and led to another until a story and for me meaning emerged. The 'poems' were written independently of the drawings when I was a long way from home wherever that is. The drawings are made primarily in ink and in my other life I'm an Applied artist working in metal most often as a silversmith but at one time or another a jeweller and also in foundries.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The title came from reading about Steinbeck's search for a title for 'of mice and men' which in turn came from Robert Burns' 'Wee timorous beasties.' Another rejected title of his was 'Something happened' and these and the story struck a chord with me when reading it whilst putting the drawings together for the book.</span></p><p></p><p></p>