The drawings in this sketchbook began December 1995 and finished in January 1996, all while CEC was attending Columbia College Chicago and working Room Service at Indian Lakes Resort. They serve as time capsules, evolutionary progress barometers, art study specimens, imagination permission slips, Inspirado channels, wonderment seeds and collaboration invites. As the wiseman, Professor of Philosophy Arnold Mamath, once said, Things are more like they are NOW than they have EVER been before. In this day and age, we couldn't agree more.