January 5, 1994

I went up to the campus of Montclair State College to meet with my former printmaking professor Bob Sennhauser. It was while I was taking classes with him that I decided to give up oil painting in favor of woodcut as my primary medium. Bob was also largely responsible for getting me into the MFA program at SIU. He knew of this Fourth of July project and this was his chance to see the first installment. We found an empty classroom and moved the large tables together in the middle of the room so I could lay out the whole thing in a gridlike fashion across the grouped tables. He was suitably impressed.