Uno And His Assistant In The Triple B Studio

 June 17, 2026

   My daughter Deena comes in from Seattle today.

Uno and his Studio Assistant

   And, here is the above photo in context:

State Forty Eight And BBB

     And, in case you were wondering what is on the art desk to my right, in the above photo. . .

Desk Top Rodeo

By Rooster Rob Mathiash

   This photo captures the scattered nature of my work ethic. At any given time I am usually working on multiple images, laying in some strokes on one, grabbing another unfinished—or, in some cases, finished!—artwork and giving it another go. That is my cartoon creation, The Doper Roper, bottom right, which is a photo of Granthum P. Hooker (actually a pressman at Rau Advertising) holding a Coors can at the Heatwave Cafe which was actually a remote bar north of Buckeye, Arizona known locally as Froggy Bottom, circa 1974. And I see several Old Vaquero paintings in progress, a young Jesse James, Emiliano Zapata, Wyatt Earp from the side, a study of a Vincent van Gogh (peeking from behind, top, left) and the movie poster for Young Guns on the wall behind everything.

   All of which begs the question for a guy six months shy of turning 80: I fear I have wandered onto the stage and stayed too long. It's embarrassing and pathetic. What can I do to possibly redeem myself?

An Exit Strategy

   Be gracious, generous and grateful  Orchestrate your exit from the stage. Gift as much as you can. Enjoy the process and let it go. All the put downs and humiliation gave your life meaning and context. Embrace it all. What a gift!

"The really worst part of being 80 is that you find, at last, you've got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered."

—Bob Dylan