This is a portrait of my oldest son, Aaron, an artist in New Orleans. He sells his work on Jackson Square in the French Quarter. He and I are also working on a series of children’s books featuring his dinosaur characters. His choice to move to New Orleans and develop an art career struck me as an excellent subject for DREAMTIME. I carved and painted his face in wood, and added some of his creativity and a sense of New Orleans by using images he created. I loved the playful rendering of New Orleans houses I’d seen in his art and book projects, and asked him to create a circle of houses. Our joint book process has him writing the story and drawing the art in black line, and my doing the layout and colorization. The dino characters are from our first book DiNOLA.