I dunno. I'm an American barbarian, if not really typical. It took me less than a week to pickup on the vitality of Greece. In Paris, it took me about 4 days to understand how in love with beauty the Parisians are. It really impressed me. I love it.

I am not so much an artist. My tools are based on science. I study, probing with the power and hardness of an icebreaker's prow. I study humanity and have seen humanity's deepest soul. One could easily come to believe that it is loneliness. As a biologist I would have thought it would be survival instinct, which is amazingly powerful, but to my surprise, when people bared their soul to me, it was always about creativity.