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The first time I visited the Grand Canyon I realized I had crossed a personal boundary about space. Those little pencil lead sized dots were huge pine trees almost a mile below me. This was a migration into three ring boundaries. The outer is basically a drawing on a black background. The middle boundary simplifies the shapes and colors and removes the linear aspect. The inner boundary is more detailed but holds little secrets like animals hiding about. This is about the boundary of seeing, knowing and intent. It acknowledges the boundary of two dimensional space as it pushes our perception of reality.

My family owned a technical illustration firm so I spent part of my youth observing illustrators produce impossibly complicated projects for Fortune 500 clients. The advantage of my exposure to the profession was simply that I knew the seemingly impossible could be done and that it required an unbelievable work ethic to accomplish.I was not that interested in an illustration career, but I loved to paint. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to a BFA program and then to an MFA degree program in painting. I have had highly divergent influences. After teaching for several years for Ohio U I wrote the art degrees at Shawnee State University and became their first department chair before retiring from FT teaching in 2005. I moved to...