 I'm 71 years old. I'm as excited today about the print I'm printing today as I was pulling the very first print. My art defines who I am. It is my passion. I've been doing this for pushing 50 years. Japanese art is unlike anything else done in the world. When you look at a composition of a Japanese print, it is the essence of simplicity. Less is more. Hanging in the back are my fabulous handmade Japanese brushes that are made from pony belly hair, which is cool. My inks are stored in this refrigerator and the one next to it. To date, I have 214 colors that are all built by hand, my carving tool. Signed and made by the Japanese master samurai sword makers, these brushes that I'm using are the traditional Japanese printing brushes. First you have to have a drawing, a drawing that's rocking your boat. I transfer one color at a time to a separate block of wood. I paint color on with the brush, then the paper is carefully registered to the wood and you rub the back of the paper and that transfers the color from the wood to the paper. No two of the gradation in this water is ever ever the same. They're all like one of a kind pieces. The first earliest Japanese woodblock print that I know of was done in 600 AD. I treat this like I'm doing a drawing just like I did before. Every layer is a separate block of wood. Modern technology has affected an ancient art form. I do not have to carve wood anymore. The computer was cutting the wood. I have a most fascinating life. I live on a most remarkable branch and the moment you're standing in front of the creek and you're looking at the light and it's movement on the water. When those moments occur from me, those have to be woodblock prints. My art is not a hobby. My art is my full-time business and I absolutely love it. Marketing what you do enables me to continue to do it and that is what I'm grateful for the internet presence and someone like GoDaddy who is so accessible to small businesses like me. I am still rocking and rolling and I really think it's a mindset. Age is a number. I'm giving the whole world heads up. I'm 71 now. I'm going to live a really long time so I'm just kind of giving everyone a warning.