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Red Ropes For as long as I can remember I have loved to draw. In school art was always my favorite subject and some of my very first report cards indicate that my teachers noticed. Every year when I went to get my yearbook photo taken I fell into the same trap: the photographer asked what subject I liked best and I answered, ‘art,’ to which he replied, ‘Art? Who’s that? Is he cute?’ I would grin with embarrassment and vow to not repeat the same mistake again, but of course I did every year. Like most children, I didn’t think much about what I wanted to do with my life. If asked in class I would say ‘paleontology’ because I liked dinosaurs and I thought it was a neat word. As I got older I thought about doing something related to art as a career, but it wasn’t until my first trip to a museum in Chicago that I knew I wanted to be an artist for the rest of my life. It was my junior year in high school. I didn’t like high school and usually didn’t participate in anything related to it. My sociology teacher, Mr. Green, took his class to Chicago every year to visit various sites including a visit to an inner city school (how he got away with saying it had to do with sociology). I wasn’t int