The avatar that I settled on is one of my paintings that evoked the emotional mess/passion/explosion that I feel a lot of the time. I made it in 2007. The name was because, well, I think about everything way too much and I always have. I started trying to figure out the meaning of life at age 5 or 6 and was a full blown existentialist by age 7. I was sitting on the playground staring out the chain link fence beyond my little world, knowing it was all out there and I was a prisoner to family, religion, state, and society...that everything was planned in advance for us, and that we were going to die anyway, so why not do what we wanted to with our little allotment of time. I still stand by that thought. And 22 was the number on the jersey of my favorite baseball player in high school...Brett Butler...Go Dodgers!