Stories From Behind The Art

This piece was created as part of the San Diego Splendor collection—a growing body of work that reflects the beauty, history, and quiet character of this region. Designed as a fine art print, it offers a way to bring that sense of calm, place, and memory into your everyday spaces. Whether displayed in a living room, office, or hallway, it becomes more than décor—it becomes a reminder. Of where you’ve been.Of what you value.Of the beauty that still stands, even as everythin

Most of us met the toucan on a cereal box. That bird — the cartoon one, with the beak in three impossible colors and the cheerful pitch for fruit-flavored rings — felt like the pure invention of someone who'd been given too much creative freedom and not enough supervision. Surely nothing like that actually existed. And then you see one. Not on a box. Not in a logo. In person, at eye level, close enough to see the electric blue ring around that dark eye and the way t