I am Ian Batchelor and I created The Planet Mesa project. I have been involved with art all my life, firstly finding a passion in life-drawing and then painting. After many years of drawing and painting the 3 dimensions of sculpture appealed to me as it gave me the opportunity to work on the piece from every angle. I explored a variety of mediums until I found the combination of materials I thought worked best for what I wanted to achieve. At this point I created the Mesa cube. The idea behind this was that I wanted to have a fictional world to base my sculptures in so that I could explore any idea I wanted and not have it bound in reality. Everything is contrived and fictional. To me this meant I had complete freedom to explore. After about 15 sculptures that were based in the ‘Mesaverse’ a narrative began to emerge. I have 3 main stories now planned with this narrative (at this point ‘Story 1’ has been released) but I hope to continue exploring the world indefinitely.
