I went back in time today ... what a joy ... staring at my hand painted plate done by my grandmother more than 100 years ago.  She was French/German from Alsace Lorraine.  Its a beautiful plate and as I was rambling down my mega abstract road ... something stopped me and called me back to the first sketches I ever did.  So this piece you see is really an ode to my heritage and my grandmother and the great gift she left me.