Tomorrow morning at the crack of nine I get back into the classroom and begin to once again talk about what I love to do--make art, photograph things, document stories and work through the problems of visual communication. Over my years I've tried several forms of image making, some more successful than others. Even though my degrees are in painting and drawing, probably my least successful work have been done in those mediums. Photography seems to be my way, not that I find that easy either, but I seem to see and record better than I can get my mind to make my awkward hands and arms do what I want them to. So when I began using photography, the computer and my ability to see shapes and colors and forms to piece together images in a similar way that I was making painting then I began to see another way for me to communicate with paint and charcoal, by photographing them and using their bits and pieces to make new pieces. Changing their scale and isolating small parts of the created works I could move from thought to thought. I even found that photographing my palate was equally rewarding. So now tomorrow I get to begin talking to students just starting out in the image making process about how they can use all that they learn to create. And more you get into it--the more you will discover that there are no ends to what you can create. Image by Richard Sayer