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We ducked into Cafe Maspero to rest our feet and get a little refreshment on a drizzly afternoon in New Orleans. Besides enjoying my companions, I loved the way the place looked with its open door and other people pausing in the middle of the afternoon.

Our lives are permeated with stories of all shapes, sizes and flavors, most of which we have little conscious awareness. I've always been drawn to stories, and that may well be what drew me to art. As a child I loved illustrations, and as an adult I worked as an illustrator. But simply illustrating a given story is limiting. Now that I'm free to paint what I want, I choose more ambiguity in my subject matter. Instead of merely presenting a story, I seek to stimulate a seed in the viewer, an invitation to co-create the experience of the painting according to the wealth of life, thought and perception he or she brings to the viewing. I have studied under Carolyn Anderson, Edward Povey and Michelle Torrez and have consistently won awards in...