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"I get an idea of the location where the piece will end up, whether its hanging, or outside on a wall, or free standing in area of the yard which is most typical. Then talk about color or no color, stainless versus rust, you know. And make the model, or three or four models. I don't sketch, I go straight to programing through CorelDRAW or at that time, Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator? So I learned all that programing, you know, just because of the sculpture. And my laser runs off CorelDRAW. It recognizes it. That and you know, digital files like that. And so then I start manipulating whatever. A lot of times I love going to these, you know, cuts where I can actually pull things apart. And uh pretty much know what they're going to do these--you know, after I've done so many of them, I know what's going to happen with it and I can--you learn the gauges of steel-to-sky size up to whatever scale we're talking about."

"Somehow this artist recognition of the county as an artist destination, not just the tour, but I mean just a place to buy 10 acres and build your own house, pretty much exactly what we did. When we moved out we knew no one in Chatham County. All our friends were in--around Raleigh and Apex area and now all of them are out here in Chatham, you know. Cary, you know, happens, and you know, it's-it's tough to get started as a couple, you know, anywhere, as a couple buying land or building or something like that in Orange County, it's just--it's just Chatham County is easy to move to, its got three different rivers, its got a quaint county seat of Pittsboro. Goldston, Bonlee, these smaller--Bennett--these smaller areas down South of the county are just as remote as you'd wanna be. If you want it remote, you can go down there and you'll be just fine. And that's going to change. That's going to change because the popularity of Chatham County and the industry that's moved in--it's going to change the land."

"The Studio Tour is a guild. It has its own presence on the website and it happens generally I still think they're still doing the first two weekends of December. And, there's probably anywhere from probably 60 to 90 different artists each year, all kinds of mediums. And the tour is actually where people would have a map and go around and visit studios and see artists' work, possibly them at work, those two weekends of December, and sell. Then there's a showing of everyone's work. And typically, it used to be at the Community college and now I believe it's at The Plant in Pittsboro."