Atelier 17 gathered many artists together from around the world and many had brief time spent there, and others stayed on for many years like Gail Singer and Akemi Noguchi, Hector Saunier, Krishna Reddy, Jean Clerte, and more, these are some that became mentors to me in one capacity or another.

Atelier 17 was the cauldron, the mixing bowl, the foundation, the one foot on the bround while the other roamed all around. I am currently looking to get back into stching having been away from it for quite some time as I have experimented with so many other ways to convey my messages , moods, feelings, pure instincts, that untamed wild , oui sangle et fou element of my living being! I am looking at all the things at that time of my life, and there are many, and in finding themvI will puece together what I may and am capable of doing, and it is enriching and exciting to do this as, even before I etchvagain, at the Arlington Arts Center in northern Virginia, sooooo many ideas come to me as I prepare everything, on a more professional way as I see it is a necessary function today of getting back to some of my early roots and etch and print once again. i went downstaurs to look at the print tgat Gail Singer gave me and signed, it was difficult for her to do so, and I greatly aporeciate tgat she did. This is an etching she made , an artist's proof in 1966 I believe, that she named : " Les plantes qui parlent " - the plants that speak! I love the print, thank you Gail!

I made a video or two today of it with the black and white photograph I have of her in her studio apartment in Paris, and I include it in these videos of today, Thursday, January 15, 2026, now 1:55pm as I start this. Sante a tous et bonne annee 2026. It would have been 1978-80 that I spent time with Gail and her friend Eric Schmid , an Austrian tgat was friends with Hunderwauser,