This painterly journey of what if, slowly oozed out of “Imagineering”, the process of mining images and ideas from the unconscious.  It began with Zap Comics and R. Crumb who I discovered during my 1972 travels through Europe, attempts at transcendental mediation and other experiences through the doors of perception.   Two influential instructors, Robert Kostka, a visiting professor from the Chicago School of Design and a Jungian, and LaVerne Krause a painting and printmaking professor at the University of Oregon, invited me into a world of imagination and expression through painting and drawing.  For some reason, rational thoughts became a distraction. Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson who said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,” I stepped across the hall into the Department of Landscape Architecture and disappeared into the rational world of urban design leaving behind the irrational universe of abstract and surreal thought.  However, as time progressed, irrational thinking helped turn urban problems upside down to break rational conventions, moving clients and the public forward.