Hello everyone,

I'm very delighted to be given the opportunity by the Dowd Gallery - by Erika (who did a great, a really great job setting up the exhibition) - I'm very happy to get this opportunity to contribute to an investigation into what it means to be human in this seemingly very complex world that we navigate in, or try to, on a day to day basis. 

It's very apparent by looking at the work you did and the way you communicate in relation to it that it has been an interesting experience for you to participate in this project as well. I kind of see it more as a collaboration between a photographer from Denmark and a number of artists from the east coast, and that's so cool. 

Steve Jobs gave a TED talk that I saw recently in which he points out one of the very valuable and necessary things that he learned during his career which is:  Whatever he does for a living it has to be fun, and play must be part of the job description. 

One of the things I learned about having a child is that they play not with a specific purpose, they are not ambitious in their play, they simply play, and after having built a sand castle or whatever they destroy it, leaving it behind, it means nothing, its the moment that counts, the play in itself that counts, that's what's important. And throwing yourself at an artistic project with such unpretentious delight is fantastic to see and that is something that I want to do from now on. I'm not doing what I do in order to become a well known, established photographer at some point, I don't care about that, what I care for is to let whatever resources, potentials, pure motives step in the forefront and my ego in the…

It seems to me that a very pure interest in your fellow human beings was what moved you to… or rather what was so interesting about doing the project that you did, and I'm so happy about that. Thank you. 

I hope you will continue playing until you die :-)

Warm regards and best wishes,

Simon