When away from the computer, Todd can be found jogging in Forest Park, coaching water polo, rafting or simply engaged in serious Ultimate Frisbee. He has a bag full of them. He collects and polishes them. Barton is Johnny Appleseed, crisscrossing the country, throwing words out of his bag and knowing a few of them will sprout. Words are symbols.
Words are tasty morsels to be savored.
What Julia Child does with provisions, Barton does with words. He understands that the cadence of words hypnotize like Ruby Keeler's tap shoes a ratatattattin on the boards at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Their pieces are held in private collections from New York to Singapore. Charles Lunn has studied in Paris and has had considerable exposure in one-man exhibitions in California and Oregon. Kristen Lunn has studied in Mexico and has assisted Tony Duquette in his Los Angeles exhibit while her own work was profiled at the Meadows Museum of Fine Art in Dallas.