He started off his career building 'freak bikes' for Black Label Bicycle Club in an obvious attempt to hurt his friends. This drew the interest of Madagascar Institute where he helped work on projects guided by their mantra “Fear is never Boring”. This in turn led to the amazing ‘living art’ experiments of the Swimming Cities raft project which brought Ben to India, down the Ganges on 5 handmade motorcycle driven paddle-wheel boats. © 2014 Benjamin Mortimer