Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

It was all cheese and applause.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.