alchemy, inventive music from handmade instruments, stories, cultures, travelling, coloured pigments, natural pigments, meditation, swimming in the ocean pool, yoga, phenomenology, eastern mysticism, handmade objects, Dr Seuss, traveling caravans, Persian poetry, collecting cultural objects, vinyl records..
Fellow artists/musicians/writers, curators and agencies of the artworld interested in my work.
tom waits, velvet underground, john cage, the scientists, the moffs, the stems, morning after girls, beatles, weezer, nico, lou reed, john cale, leonard cohen, juliana hatfield, fantomas, peeping tom, mazzy star, mike patton, john zorn, r.carlos nakai, master musicians of joujouka, traditional arabic music. ravi shankar, farid, fayrouz, secret chiefs 3, beck, built to spill, dylan, joni, jimi, janis, r.e.m., doug martsch, stephen malkmus, phil elverum, microphones, pavement, stone temple pilots, ween, mingus, miles, slim gaillard, monk, bird, cannonball adderly, sonny rollins, patti smith group, ornette coleman
Rimbaud: L'Enfer and The Illuminations