 For over 25 years I made ceramics. I was a potter, throwing pots on the wheel, supplying shops and galleries. Alongside making pots I'd become interested in computers. I was really intrigued about the two contrasting ways of creating things. I started to use 3D software, CAD software and I used it as a sketching tool but alongside traditional sketching. I've always drawn. I spent long, long hours as a child drawing. With this there wasn't actually a great deal of time spent with pencil and paper in the sketchbook and I very quickly moved into the CAD software. In the CAD software I would draw a rectangle divided up according to the Fibonacci series. So I was using the guidance of the golden section, the mathematics, and then start to create the form within that rectangle and then create various iterations until I was happy with a simple line drawing. Then I could take that simple line drawing and revolve it in the CAD software to produce a virtual three-dimensional object and then I start to create the inside and that was simply created from a single line that was a raid 360 degrees in one direction and then that's a line that's circle of lines was a raid in the opposite direction to create a starburst, a bloom. I'm playing with words a little bit in the titling of this. I want to reference growth in terms of the growth of a new technology, growth of new ideas, growth of new ways of working but the boom part, the explosion is the sort of shock of the new I suppose. It's overturning preconceptions, it's challenging thinking so that's why it's called the the bloom. 25 years of making pots has enabled me to make that leap to be able to really understand what I'm doing on the computer.