Margaret Watson is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in a large town in the rural Mississippi Delta near the Mississippi river. Her early creative work focused on poetry and traditional media (primarily photography). Computer art was non-existent in her part of the world at that time, so she combined art with computer information systems in her collegiate studies. She then went on to work as an early computer graphic artist and photographer in the late 80's and early 90's at a newspaper in Mississippi. Returning to school, she studied architecture, drama, computer science and interactive media. Her online gallery (Hall of Self-Expression) was recognized as one of the early art galleries on the internet. In 1994, she left Mississippi and moved to Chicago to study video and virtual reality. She became one of the first virtual reality CAVE artists whose work was exhibited and presented internationally by invitation in the late 90's and early 2000's (Liquid Meditation at Ars Electronica). She then shifted the direction of her work to interactive installations and eventually settled near her home state in nearby Louisiana. After taking an artistic break for several years, she has returned to working with traditional media and hopes to continue creating low-tech interactive art. Her artwork is influenced by nature, spirituality and a questioning of self and life. Simultaneously real and surreal, her art expresses the dual nature of life (abstract and concrete). This website documents her interactive art and photographic careers and includes other art and historical artifacts for whimsy.