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After traveling in Mexico, first down Baha and then on through central Mexico in  volkswagon vanns with my uncle and cousins from New Mexico, I quickly came to love the Mexicans high spirited love of life. They would all come out of their simple houses in the evening and stroll hand and hand around the towns plaza with the hot fish tacos  sold by  vendors on the street filling the night air with aromas that I still dream about. Ah, Mexico.

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Man and Star

A wonderful white haired man who was working on the mideast peace dilemma bought this print and told me he was bringing it over to Palestine. Another man who bought the print informed me that the star was a six pointed star, the star of David.

Man, Crocodile................and Birds

Man and Fish This print as well as Man Crocodile and Birds is a dry point etching. The design is etched into a copper plate and the print is pulled from that inked plate after going through a big hand operated printing press. I scracthed the lines of this print using an awl and a wood chisel. The fine straight lines around the fish I did with a chisel rocking it back and forth on the copper plate. The lines on the other print I made with a buzz tool engraver made to put your name on steel tools.

Welcome. Aaron speaking here. I am going to use this site as an amendment to my web site  (aarontbrown.com) where I am trying to make a living as an artist. Well actually I am not selling too much of my work as of yet off my site but hope to increase the fervor to buy and experience the work of ol ATB, as I have been known to be known at certain times in my life.  I have never been one keen on being nicknamed, but I came to be fond of the nickname that my good friends from Lawrence University, in Appelton Wisconsin, Jay Polly and Rufus Hellendale gave me way back in 1975, A.T.. Cause it was given in the spirit of friendship.     The three of us used to climb to the top of a ten story girls dorm called Kohler Hall, yup, you guessed it, the proud endowment legacy of your royal throne. We would climb up and out on to the roof ( now why the hell a college would keep the door to a ten story building’s roof unlocked I don’t know……those were the days when your life was your own darn business), and then we would pull ourselves up another eight feet high onto another roof which was about 15 feet square. We used to like to go up there and look out over the flat Wisconsin town and out towards the Fox River winding its way out towards Lake Michigan I suppose. We would philosophize about what the Indians would of thought about all this studying we had to do, and how they would have thought us all nuts.     Any ways, one night we got to thinking about how far away 2000ad was and how old we would be and would we remember each other and so on. So right then and there we all decided that where ever life had taken us we would meet up there on new years night in that distant far off year.     Years later Rufus and I decided not to make the trip. Jay Polly had been hit and killed by a car in the early 80’s, Rufus was living up in Maine, me in N.H., and besides we figured, the door would have been locked. Rufus passed away last summer. Three friends, one life.    I got sidetracked. A talent that I have refined to the enth degree. Any ways, thats it for now, though I might try to post a photo of a print not on my web site called “Man, Crocodile and Birds” It is what is known as a dry point etching, and there is a story that goes with this print about the man in the print and how he gets out of the scrape that hes obviously in, but that will have to be for later. Ta ta -Aaron                   Please visit my website aarontbrown.com and  help get this economy off its lazy butt. Gracias.