Most people who want a commissioned piece of art never ask for one. Not because they don't want it. Because they're not sure how it works. I've been commissioned for forty years. Here's how it works with me.

A freshly laid band of yellow paint cutting across a grate in the street stopped me completely. No studio. No special equipment. Just a trained eye, a phone, and the decision to look at the ordinary differently. That moment became an Amazon Number 1 bestseller.

It was a freshly laid band of yellow paint intersecting a manhole cover. I had walked that street a hundred times. That day, something about the way the line cut across the grate demanded my attention. That moment became a book. And a way of seeing I can't un-learn.