This past Friday afternoon, while we were at Artspace in downtown Raleigh waiting for me to give my presentation about my copyright fight with Viacom as part of SPARKcon, a friend and I spent about an hour walking through the gallery and taking in the fantabulous artwork: some very neat stuff in there and some things were… rather offbeat, to put it mildly.

But there was one piece on display that grabbed hold of my senses more than anything else, because I had never seen something like this before. It was a “painting” made by grinding on a sheet of stainless steel:

Now ain’t that cool?!?

Well, it so happened that the artist responsible for this eye-arresting image was on the gallery’s premises and at work in a small studio down the hall. Her name is Catherine Thornton, and I was most delighted to meet a lady blessed ...