By an unusual twist of fate, the Florence Biennale Committee invited me to exhibit my art at this prestigious International Art Exhibition. The first email they sent me, I assumed it was a Nigerian scam and promptly deleted it Six weeks later I received another. This time I investigated further and sure enough, it was kosher. God knows, I didn't consider myself a real artist. Just a bit of a dabbler. I'd made a couple of small collages and loaded the images onto an obscure website. The committee spotted them among the thousands of art images on the Internet. That year the Committee chose...