Painter works to preserve Nebraska's legacy through art

The old saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures can bring one back to a single moment in time. Pictures can let people see time periods long passed and loved ones long taken away by the hands of time. They can act as a revolving door to bring us back around to times when smiles crowded our faces and times when the spaces under our eyes were merely occupied by tears, bringing us back to the places that we long and ache to go again.

However, a picture lacks a level of feeling and depth that open one's mind to the beauty of a given area, time period or person. They lack...