I recently had a very enthusiastic, slightly eccentric gentleman come up to me at a show with the introduction of "You should write an article! I have something you might like to write about." I paused, scanning for possible escape routes and the show security. Honestly, I thought to myself, I'm probably just like this when I want to talk with someone about Artizen. So I stopped and smiled. "I think you should write an article about me!" Okay, he gets an A for confidence. And then he showed me the gem he'd just purchased from one of the show's craſtspeople. A brightly colored, hand-carved box of some kind, obviously well and lovingly made. Turns out it was a harmonica case. And soon to be added to one of the
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