When did I first learn to relay the visual world around me into images? I do not remember. But it must have been at age 2, or probably earlier, that I first laid my hands on color pencils. At 6, I was enrolled in an art school, where I attended classes for three hours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon, for ten years. So, painting was the most natural human occupation for me - no big deal, really. We, the art students, were taught along the lines of traditional art education. The three core elements were painting, drawing,...more