Every now and then I sometimes wonder if there is something strange going on just outside of my conscious mind.  Perhaps it is serendipity, perhaps fate or perhaps a random interaction of cosmic particles passing through my body making neurons  in my brain connect in strangely attractive ways.

The Deep Time project is a case in point.  This project started much earlier than I recall and must have been simmering in my subconscious whilst I was working on other projects – not least of which was my historical research which slowly  took me to the prehistoric world of central Britain.  At the same time I started to get interested in the Green Man, an ancient creature/entity that probably dates from way before Christianity.  On the surface none of these are directly connected, although the Green Man and Prehistory are in a way.

However, yesterday I was just thinking about the Deep Time project and its relationship with stone circles and I started to sketch out some thoughts and low and behold a version of the  Green Man appeared in the sketch along with Bronze Age barrows and old churches.  Since then I’ve been thinking about the Green Man even more and its possible relationship to Deep Time.  Suddenly all the strands started to pull together in a wholly unsuspected way.  Very strange.