A student of art and culture for over 40 years initially looked into Asian art and its implicit involvement with the forces of nature and the divine. The artist in Asia was just the scribe of a society that drew the connection between the elements that affected all conditions of life and the powers that could influence their quality of life. The conduit between the all powerful forces and daily life of folk is a special role acted by shaman, sage, pharaoh, priest, and more recently king. It is this need to connect to the ultimate powers that shape life on earth and the afterlife that has captivated the minds of all traditions is also at the core of this work. As an infant my good Scots folk immigrated to a land of opportunity in the Antipodes, to make a better life for us. They did and this work is an expression of that experience of living and growing in a foreign land with differing cultures. More importantly it is the opportunity to grow to understand the common and the different traditions and attitudes of many people. For many years the habitat of this land held my attention; its ancient geology, the marsupial dominated fauna, the diverse eucalyptus forests. The later was the focus of an early animated film on forest preservation. But now it is the population that terra-forms its habitat to the needs of its society as it sees fit. And it is the attitude of the people that motivates that unstoppable drive.