ABSTRACT
I ‘ve always been one of those ordinary guys, you know, just a plugger – nothing outstanding. I have a short memory so if I've done something great I can't brag about it because I can't remember it. Maybe that's why I am prone to look forward rather than back. What is happening today and tomorrow are the important things. And for a person that has that forward-looking trait, I think it's especially important for him to have a good solid philosophical and psychological undergirding. The word gird is very apropos here because it means to prepare (oneself) for action. The action, in our case, is drawing; that impassioned desire to express oneself, that urge to create that ingrained need to interpret one's surroundings. It is the need to make or create a tiny bit of order, it is the need to express some of the myriad of impressions we have gathered in all our hours of looking and seeing and observing, it is the pleasure that comes from corralling form and content and assembling them into a new thing – preferably something that no one else has done before – at least not quite in the same way.
