This is my problem: I don’t always finish what I’ve started.  Finishing isn’t what I enjoy.  I’m all about the burst of excitement, the possibilities, the originality at the start of a project.  Sure, I’ve seen many projects – personal and professional – through to the end.  But it’s the beginning, the creative spark of life in the darkness of the void, that I’m all about.

When my projects go unfinished, they linger in the limbo of my hard drive.  I’ve been known to pick them up again, drag them further towards completeness.  But I’ve also been known to drop them and never return.  They may have been a beautiful spark at the beginning, but now they are nothing.  Untouched, unseen, unloved.  Unfinished.

The Unfinished Project is a project I know I will never finish, because as long as I live I will be starting new works, to see where they take me.  And I will be casting aside those works I lose interest in. But I will also be placing my unfinished works – some old, some new – on this website. Here at TheUnfinishedProject.co.uk is where I will be exposing my unfinished work to the world.  Nothing here is complete.  Nothing here is ready to be shown to anyone.  But now it is here, now it is ‘out there’.

I want to hear what you think.  If you like anything I have done.  If you think I should take anything that I place on this site further.  If you have any ideas on how anything on this site could be developed.  These projects are not set in stone – they are unfinished.  If there are finishers in the world, people who get they same joy and satisfaction from completeness and endings that I get from possibilities and beginnings, please get in touch – I’m sure we can collaborate.

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