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Robert's art begins with sun light. Sun light is the source of energy that powers all life on earth. It represents the vitality and exuberance of life itself. His art attempts to capture that exuberance and its variety. Using an array of equilateral glass prisms, he creates the rich color that characterizes his work. By adjusting the individual prisms in the array, he mixes additional color combinations beyond the normal rainbow of a single prism. Then, he use lens, filters, reflections, foam board, glue, paint, overhead transparencies and other objects to create various light affects and takes digital photographs of the results. Finally, he uses a computer to manipulate the images (such as crop, cut, paste, etc.) to create the final art piece. He classifies his art as mostly non-representational abstract mixed media. He developed his process and tools over a number of years of experimentation.

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Robert B. Calkins is a retired aerospace research and development systems engineer. His forty year carrier in aerospace was spent working for the U.S. Air Force, McDonnell Douglas and the Boeing Company. His education included a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering, a B.A. in Applied Mathematics, and a M.S. in Computer Science. During his carrier, he published a number of technical papers, reports, journal articles and authored a national technical standard. He was also active in several technical societies and holds a couple of patents. He is a recognized expert in ejection seats and parachute recovery systems. Robert lives with his wife in the woods in the Pacific North West. He has been doing research for several years on the systems approach to understanding our world, society and current conditions. His hobbies are hiking, photography and graphic art. Past hobbies included skydiving and general aviation.

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