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"Muse: Autumn" is the first in the series of muses, each with an emphasis on a particular season. In Autumn the woman in the green dress returns holding the apple of passion in one hand while monarch, swallowtail, and other butterflies are drawn to her body like a flight of ideas. The ring of flame that encircles her head represents the fire of creativity.

I grew up in Florida, moved to Texas my senior year of High School, and earned a BA in Art from Texas Tech University in 1985. That same year I got married, moved to Dallas, and enrolled in the BFA program at University of North Texas for Art Education. A few years later, I graduated again, joined the Peace Corps, went to Botswana and taught art at a community school in a small village on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. After four and a half years the wife and I moved to Yemen and six months later left that fine country in the midst of a civil war. We then packed whatever we had left and spent the next eight years in Vilnius, Lithuania, where my son was born in 2000. Our "Global Nomad" days came to an end shortly after 9-11, and we...