I have put a lot of pressure on myself this year. I am compiling my intimate poetry of the past decade into the book, harnessing my photography skills, completing a short film project that I was developing throughout 2010, working with a cable company and beginning the embryonic stages of producing the Ireland project which has been in development since 2008. The drive for me to succeed is past that, it is done more now as a sense of survival. Do everything now because I may not be able to in the future.

Mark M.