I started out Fleetwood and arrived in Wembley, paintbrush in hand. I ask the question, what animates you and me? If you know what animates you then you have a better chance of being the real you! I hope that you find my story helps you being you!I know the world needs art and artists to make it. Information about the artist from the 'horses mouth' is needed if the artist is true and if art has been made. The words of others are about them, their agendas. I describe my childhood and then chart a journey through 45 countries. I ask basic questions such as what right does anyone have to try to make art? I answer that. I know that trying to make art is humbling. This book assumes the artist is not in control, but the arts project itself is mainly calling the shots. Like, as if you allow the project to live, it somehow multiplies miraculously of its own accord.I hope that you like fish, Skate in particular. As said, I hope too that you gain something from my journey that may inform and help inspire your own. Jerry Gordon