Cutting off the top of my head.

I have experienced cutting on a bigger scale.

cutting for my classmates, cutting for projects,

for prizes & certificates,

for collections, for shows,

for industry, for press,

for individual clients, for celebrities,

for real creativity & dreams,

blind ambition cutting, cutting out of my mind,

my head in knots, telling the whole world,

talking to audiences, demonstrating,

freestyling, passing it on,

put into performance,

broadcast on tv, on the web,

in magazines & newspapers,

cutting in words & diagrams,

translated live by interpretors into

Russian, French, Chinese & Japanese.

i've cut for classes,

private tuition,

art colleges & universities,

hired help to sort out problems,

inspire, raise confidence, get them going.

I've cutt to spread the word & influence.

My techniques eclipsing my ambition.

Growing to love them in a different way,

through other people,

amazed faces, spun minds,

a round of applause at the end just for

showing them the way.

So touching and real.

When you can stand up in front of a group of complete strangers,

or an audience that don't even speak the same language,

and sum up pretty much everything you know in just one hour,

and still make it click,

because you have practiced, streamlined & made easy every step,

broken everything down to near absurd simplicity,

and you pass the point at which your method can be roughly demonstrated using

a t-shirt, duvet cover & 6 dinner plates,

then you know that your style of cutting is likely to outlive you,

cross boundaries of understanding, cultural divides, generation gaps,

because you have relinquished ownership of it and set it free,

that it is bound to run away from you and become influential to other peoples work,

whether they like it or not, because you have made it memorable,

and it is not something that people can easily forget or un-learn.

And all i'm left wondering from this exchange is:

where does my technique go now that it no longer needs me with it,

when will it be used, when will it die, when will it resuface, when will a machine be built to automate it,

and where do i go from here now that i am free from it's responsibility ?

Words by Professor Julian Roberts