I did a show in my live-work studio, it was called "Shrekfast"

Breakfast is the first meal of the day, the forest feels like home and gently dips your head into a warm basin of contentment. Growth and green everywhere, get ur money! things growing on other things, spring is coming, your passion is returning, the shift from darkness to light. Every morning she strokes her plants un-self-consciously and whispers loving words to them and everything feels alright. Little bit further each day. Optimism!!!!

It's not a leech because it doesn't affect the host negatively, it's more like clothes – a perfect dressing, a low-maintenance host.

The conditions have to be just right and then it springs up overnight, as if from nowhere. It's kind of magical...like birth and all creation, something appears where before there was nothing. Imagine, all of the factors that have to be just exactly right for something to appear, so unexpected if you're not paying attention.