Wayne Cook

I’m a TV engineer, working for a network. I’m also a driven songwriter and composer of jazz, pop, and rock music.

All of which sounds rich and layered. I pursue three things in life. Integrity, Quality, and Understanding. These have come upon me in a new sense. Integrity, the ability to maintain an even path, in the face of success or failure. Quality, the appreciation of life, whether one experiences failure or ecstasy. Understanding, the ability to analyse life’s events, so as to avoid repeating mistakes of the past, and to see beyond the curtain of mystery, to the true meaning of life. Integrity is a product of intent, not accident, Quality the pursuit of excellence, and Understanding, the assault on the mountain of Knowledge.

It is said, that practice makes perfect. There are many parallels in the practice and learning of a course in a complex musical instrument, to the prinicples of life. But that also applies in any discipline, from photography and other visual art, to essay and poetry.

Practice is preparation in motion. In the case of our work on this site, the art that appears here, is the outcome of many years of practice and Apprenticeship. It may well be to ourselves, but for many of us, all our roads led to this point.

To those of you who enter the scuffed and carved oak doors to these pages, I simply offer a welcome and my humble hospitality. Please make yourself at home Mi casa es Tu casa. De Veras :)