One common theme running through my collection is the appearance
of one Clara Veiga. She seems to pop up all over the place. It
all started when I first wrote a series of stories about nothing.
The idea of the concept of nothing and more important the existence
of something, which we call life, came to me one day whilst driving
to work. There have been many theories regarding the essence of
time and space and I guess I have read none of them. However the
idea that we are all travelling through nothing and then are
captured for a lifetime in something began to stir in my mind.

And so I ventured into the world hidden behind the something we
call life to uncover the masters of the web that trapped us here.
Enter the beautiful Clara Veiga. In one of the first chapters the
main character in the story is taken prisoner by hunters. There are
two men and a woman. I give all my characters real life personalities
or peoples images. I have no idea why Clara popped into my head as
the character in the story. I had never intended her to become the
main driving force behind all the stories. One minute she was not
in my train of thought, and the next she pretty well dominated
the whole story... and each subsequent story.

She has been so powerful. The character has assimilated the avatar
of Clara Veiga and so now Clara lives eternally as she was in 2003
trapped in my world. There just wouldn't be a story without that
image.

And so it is little surprise that when I am creating pictures, files
and drawers on the computer I call upon the image of Clara to best
represent my private world. It has been a long standing tradition
with Amiga users to have females as their leading ladies when it
comes to naming things. After all Amiga means 'girl friend'. No doubt
you are aware of the music CD ' Everybody's Girlfriend '. If you
watch the history of the Amiga you will appreciate the history of
why so many chips have girls names.

Clara Veiga has been a source of inspiration and has driven me to
create even more in the series of stories. She never fails to surprise
me and although she is not intended to be the real life woman I always
hope in some way by celebrating her she will live on as the beautiful
creature I recall from those catwalks of 2003 on Fashion TV.

Here are odd images that I have used when creating blogs. I am
sure there are more.

I do thank the real life Clara Veiga who I am hoping does not mind me
using her face to represent an Amiga icon... of my creation.