During my schooldays I worked as a paperboy selling newspapers in a Pub and by yelling out “Shark Attack” or “Bushfires” was guaranteed better sales. These 2 topics embedded “fear” and “disaster” into the lives of all Australians, which remains constant today. 
   In 1983 an excursion with RMIT art students to Moggs Creek (to view the “destructive beauty” caused by fires that raged along the Victorian Coast from Lorne to Torquay, sending residents fleeing into the surf), has remained a vivid memory.
   While bushfires are dreaded disasters, the debris left behind gives me inspiration to create works of grandeur and purpose.  During my pop-art period of the early 70’s I painted images of corrugated iron as reference to the roofing of almost every Australian home.  Rekindling the use of corrugated iron as a reference to the debris caused by fires, this new body of works has evolved, transcending to new conceptual spheres.
   Moreover, while I look “favourably” upon bushfires, tackling the 2^nd topic of shark attack leaves me uninspired.