Graham says:

I go into my shed and put certain music on, stuff that really gets my creativity going. It’s like my brain switches into a different gear where I can actually perceive the complexity of detail. When I am in that state, I have to get the complicated muddle in my head out by making a miniature scene – to sort of make sense of it. Everything I make has to connect to reality – something I’ve seen or lived or a memory. It’s all personal. Making miniatures makes me be in the world in a different way. When you are working in detail, it makes you look at the world in detail and see all sorts of connections between things that you might miss otherwise. I grew up in poverty – so much chaos – so everything I make has a bit of that replicated in it in small-scale, all the muck and grime and blood and shit of life. My miniatures always have some mess. Life is bleak in many many ways. It can be tempting to sink so low – I know, I’ve been there, so many times. But all you need is something small, something that lifts you, that makes you question what you think you know, that makes see things differently – a tiny moment that stops you sinking into despair. As humans we need that – we need to be open to the possibilities of the world around us to survive, don’t we?