Around the same time that I started making Light Paintings, I tried a little experiment: I took a plain glass slide mount and doodled on it with coloured marker pens. Before projecting it, I dried the wet ink in the blast of hot air coming out of the projector. The ink formed interesting swirls and bubbles, and I realised I was on the verge of a new technique. Variations soon followed: mixing various kinds of oil with the ink to make tiny bubbles; sandwiching crumpled cling film between the glass plates in the slide mount; placing the slide in a slide copier in front of my camera lens and shooting directly into the sun. Using a bellows so that I could zoom in on smaller and smaller parts of the image to an almost microscopic degree, discovering multi-dimensional worlds in these tiny paintings. I was grateful for the sparkling resolution of the Zeiss S-Planar 60mm macro lens mounted on my Contax RTSII. For me, these images evoke the nebulous thought processes that occur when a new song is on its way. Musical inspiration made visual. (16 images including this page).