Meeting this morning with the visual artist, Torben Torp-Smith, to review his portfolio and look at how we might collaborate on future projects. Torben does mostly theater design and sculpture so a morning with Torben is always visually stimulating and leaves me with asking him the question, How did you make THAT? This photo is from Torben’s MFA thesis presentation for the opera, Billy Budd. It is a cross-section of an armed Man-of-War navigating in the two fluid media of wind and waves. It is a metaphor for deck levels of class identity rigidly regulated by an unmoving and inflexible matrix of law and custom. Wow! For more inspiration visit, www.torpsmith.com.